Shorthand: A Scientific Magazine, Band 2

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Jas. Wade, 1885
 

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Seite 168 - ... newly imprinted, and enlarged to almost as much again as it was, according to the true and perfect copy.
Seite 176 - Did throng the seats, the boxes, and the stage ; So much, that some by Stenography drew The plot, put it in print, (scarce one word true...
Seite 129 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 176 - I here proclaim myself ever faithful in the first, and never guilty of the last ; yet since some of my Plays have, unknown to me, and without any of my direction, accidentally come into the printer's hands, and therefore so corrupt and mangled, copied only by the ear, that I have been as unable to know them, as ashamed to challenge them : this, therefore, I was the willinger...
Seite 220 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Seite 220 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me...
Seite 220 - I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand ; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear ; and therefore resolve from this time forward, to have it kept by my people in longhand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know...
Seite 176 - I would fain leave the paper ; only one thing afflicts me, to think that scenes, invented merely to be spoken, should be enforcively published to be read, and that the least hurt I can receive is to do myself the wrong. But, since others otherwise would do me more, the least inconvenience is to be accepted.
Seite 176 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Seite 108 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.

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