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its Characters does not, perhaps, admit of fuch enor- 
mous Scrawling as others may. 
For, to inftance again in the Specimen; fuppofe 
the Mark for the Word Temptation ^ which ex- 
preflfes a vaft Variety of different Combinations of 
Confonants, to be limited, by a previous Know- 
ledge of the Language, to that Word only, yet, after 
all, it is a very aukward one 5 and ought, by a com- 
mon Short-Hand Rule of leaving out fuch Confo- 
nants as are not founded (as the p is not in Tempta- 
tion ) to have been form’d in another Manner (^\) 
wherein the Beauty and Linearity, and, of courfe, 
the Brevity of the Mark would have been preferv’d. 
But Emendations of this Nature would, I doubt, 
in many Cafes, which continued writing upon this 
Hypothecs muft exhibit, be utterly impradicable. 
In fhort, this Gentleman fet out upon right Prin- 
ciples, which many hap- hazard Undertakers have 
but little confider’d; but he had not Leifure enough, 
perhaps, to examine them to the Bottom ; as was 
the Cafe with Dr. Green of Cambridge (he that 
wrote the Greenian Thilofophy , as he calls it), who 
form’d aShort-Hand for his own privateUfe,upon much 
the fame Plan and Principles. He gave me one of 
his Sermons in it ; and, upon Suggeftion of the Ad- 
vantages that he might have taken, he faid, that for 
want of Time to conftder of his Scheme more tho- 
roughly, when he firft adopted it, he had over- 
look’d them. 
A perfect Short-Hand, I fuppofe, would be a So- 
lution of fome fuch Problem as this : “ A Lan- 
“ guage being given, to affign the moft compendious 
Fff ‘‘Method 
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