Parliamentary Short-hand |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. J. Macleane additional Poems Aldine alphabet antique calf Author average number beginning of words Bishop Byrom's C. H. COOPER Cambridge carefully revised characters Church Church of England cloth Coleridge's Lectures College Collier justly observes Confessio Amantis consonant continual practice Crown 8vo decypher denoted Dickens Edward Steere English ex recensione F. A. Paley Fcap french system Gibbon's Autobiog gilt edges Greek H. F. LYTE Holy Illustrations Isaac Taylor Jeremiah Rich JOHN MITFORD John Payne Collier Latin Memoir memoranda and extracts more.¹ Night after night number of words orator is 120 Peter Bales Plate POETICAL Post 8vo practice be acquired Prayers pronounce 180 words racters requiring extraordinary speed School Sermons short stenography struck upwards system of short-hand Taylor's terred from commencing Texts Thomas verbatim a speech Vicar vols vowels W. F. Hook writing written الم ام تم کر که کو لا لم له
Popular passages
Page 20 - I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence), and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction. The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Page 58 - A Series of Greek and Latin Authors. With English Notes. 8vo. Edited by various Scholars, under the direction of G Long, Esq., MA, Classical Lecturer of Brighton College : and the late Rev. AJ Macleane, MA , Head Master of King Edward's School, Bath.
Page 48 - The Words, with those of the same family, are traced to their origin. The Explanations are deduced from the primitive meaning through the various usages. The Quotations are arranged chronologically, from the earliest period...
Page 51 - Study-Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art ; being a series of Working Drawings of the Principal Monuments of the Middle Ages, whereof the Plans. Sections, Elevations, and Details, are drawn to Uniform Scales. By TH King, Esq.