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... Anderson . That history seems , by a very long way , to be the most perfect which has yet appeared . It deserves , and is almost certain to receive , very high praise . Well , the following quotations from such a high authority prove ...
... Anderson . That history seems , by a very long way , to be the most perfect which has yet appeared . It deserves , and is almost certain to receive , very high praise . Well , the following quotations from such a high authority prove ...
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... ( Anderson , page 93. ) Again the same author says : “ Scott de Martin- ville , whose work is perhaps the most interesting and worthy contribution to the history of stenography that has ever appeared , and in which an alphabet is given of ...
... ( Anderson , page 93. ) Again the same author says : “ Scott de Martin- ville , whose work is perhaps the most interesting and worthy contribution to the history of stenography that has ever appeared , and in which an alphabet is given of ...
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... ( Anderson , 99. ) Anderson further says : - " The repetition of an evil even remotely similar to Pitman's system of short - hand would be quite too much in the history of our planet 80 language, and perpetual motion and the philosopher's ...
... ( Anderson , 99. ) Anderson further says : - " The repetition of an evil even remotely similar to Pitman's system of short - hand would be quite too much in the history of our planet 80 language, and perpetual motion and the philosopher's ...
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... Anderson's History . Anderson further says : - " Many years ago I persuaded a brother reporter , then a proficient in Pitman's system , to abandon it for Taylor's , and , as I anticipated , he after- wards expressed the greatest ...
... Anderson's History . Anderson further says : - " Many years ago I persuaded a brother reporter , then a proficient in Pitman's system , to abandon it for Taylor's , and , as I anticipated , he after- wards expressed the greatest ...
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... Anderson deplores , in very strong terms , the fact that the British Government does not , like the German Government , encourage short - hand by liberal endowments . " Short - hand has no small claim to State support . We deplore the ...
... Anderson deplores , in very strong terms , the fact that the British Government does not , like the German Government , encourage short - hand by liberal endowments . " Short - hand has no small claim to State support . We deplore the ...
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Page 47 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it.
Page 56 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 46 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 8 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 86 - Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why ? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Page 10 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 20 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 82 - Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that 1 may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Page 6 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 6 - Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.