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Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively.
§. 8 Statistic function.
Books

28 or 7
Art. 28 or 7 Considerandum
how far to employ
abbreviations.
Antagonizing considerations,
are
I. For: saving of time
and labour of writers;
thence of expence to
Government.
2. Do. of readers: to wit
1. Functionaries of the
Office.
2. Non-functionaries
at large: to wit, such
to whom the abridged
has become as familiar
as the unabridged.

II. Against. Loss of
time and labour on
the part of such non-
functionaries in the
character of readers, of
whom the abridged form
__________ more of both
than the unabridged.
Antagonizing advantages,
conciseness and
clearness.

29 or 8
Art. 29 Means of
compromize
1. As to words singly taken.
Rules. For the abbreviatiated
form, take not
forms altogether
unanalogous, such as the
algebraic, but fragments
of the respective words:
to wit, initial letters,
with or without final
do.

Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively.
V. 8. Statistic function.
Books

30 or 9
Article 30 or 9
Rule 2. Employ no
abbreviated expression
without inserting it
in an alphabetical
list of abbreviated
expressions explained
by the unabbreviated:
that list being entered
on a page opposite to
the page on which the
title of the Book is
entered.

31 or 10
Art. 31 or 10.
Rule 3. So in regard
to prepositions, and
other smaller or larger
aggregates of words.(a)

First Sheet
Note (a.)
Art. 1. Made of forming a
clean and correct estimate
of the quantity of
advantages obtainable
by apt abbreviations.
Arithmetical expression
is but one abridgement
of ordinary do.;
algebraical or arithmetical
and ordinary, mixed.
2. Of all that is expressed
by arithmetical and
algebraical signs,
nothing is there that could
not be expressed by
the signs employed in
ordinary writing.

33 or 12
Art. 33 or 12.
3. And yet of that stock
of information which
has been obtained by
the use of arithmetical
and algebraic
signs, no more than

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Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively.
§. 8. Statistic function
Books

than a comparatively
small part
could have been
obtained without
them.
4. The reason is, that
but for these modes
of compression, to
such a length would
the expressions have
swollen, that before
the result had been
obtained, the minds
of writers and readers
would have become
bewildered, the
conception not being able
to grasp at once the
whole quantity necessary
to the obtainment
of the result.

34 or 13
Art. 34 or 13.
5. Saving of time,
labour and thence
expence in writing,
was evidently the
advantage aimed at
in the abbreviations
employed in manuscripts,
before printing
had come into
use: had not such
advantage been
actually obtained, the
practice would not
have continued.

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Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively.
§. 8. Statistic function.
Abbreviations.
Books
Diction — Abbreviations

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