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2 May 1815
24
Chrest Tab II
Proposed Special Sign
4
Special signs, unless
they present the matter
signified in less compass
retard instead
of accelerating conception:
it is only
by presenting the ordinary
signs, that they
present the
matter signified.
(Quere?)
Unless they present the wordsspoken words i.e. the sounds in question in a shorter
portion of compass than they
the shortest that in which they can with an equal
degree of conspicuousness be presented by the written words
ordinary signs or characters of which written language
is composed, of the special signs the effect if any, so rendering far from As long the concession
more powerful couldcan do aswell be as other otherwise thence render the rendering it the slower,
For first they have to bring to view the ordinary signs.
and when they have so done, then it is that in respect of promptitude they were
upon a par and no more than upon a par with these
ordinary signs.
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