JB/018/135/001

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12 May 1815

Then why not translate it at once into the ordinary
unabbreviated language? In answer to this question several
reasons considerations may be given, neither several of them "not unapt" none if more of them unapt ones either
these inoperative.

1 One Of the most obvious one of them is already
conveyed by the word unabbreviated: abbreviation is
the main characteristic of the algebraic mode of notation designation
as distinguished from the simply arithmetical.

Applied in so many cases where it was in a
prodigious degree beneficial auxiliary, habit would suffer to
cause it to be applied to other cases in which the
employment of it would not be attended with any such
advantage.

2. Like a is a
2. Be it of what kind it may an instrument
which after much trouble a man is has a least succeeded
in rendering himself expert in the use of, a man is
naturally fond of playing with: love of power and
love of admiration both these appetites find their gratification
in it.

3. By this symbolical in contradistinction to the purely
verbal mode of designation much embarassment and difficulty
is saved: and in lieu of a variable an invariable mode
of expression is employed. For framing couching the expression in the purely verbal
mode, has though so much more effectually if framed by a masterly hand so ever instruction
to a the Scholars at his first entrance if framed by a masterly
hand, a much fuller and clearer comprehension of the subject
and to attain that will commonly be necessary than every one is able to attain,
as well as much more labour than every one is willing to bestow.

Identifier: | JB/018/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	12 or 6, 14 or 8 - 15 or 9, 13 or 7
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7 / d34 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	6544
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