This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...of common-placing; but reasons of this kind do not avail in favor of the practice against the tiresomeness of longhand writing; but a hope may be entertained that the use of common-placing will be materially increased with the use of brief longhand (which saves, according to the style employed, from fifteen to fifty ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...of common-placing; but reasons of this kind do not avail in favor of the practice against the tiresomeness of longhand writing; but a hope may be entertained that the use of common-placing will be materially increased with the use of brief longhand (which saves, according to the style employed, from fifteen to fifty per cent. of the time and labor of writing), or with the use of phonetic shorthand (which saves eighty per cent. of the time and labor required by the unabbreviated longhand). A few remarks as to the mode of common-placing may prove acceptable to those wishing to avail themselves of its benefits. When you meet in your newspaper, magazine, or other works which you do not expect to preserve, any thing which you think will be useful for future use, copy it, in full or in part, with a suitable heading, into your commonplace-book. It is not particularly desirable that the extracts should be arranged, according to their subjects, in different portions of your book. The better mode is to fill up the pages in their order, and depend upon an index for the classification of the extracts. it is usually best to defer indexing till several pages have been filled with excerpts, when one or more notes of each extract should be made in the index, a cross, or parallel lines, being placed in the margin of each extract to denote that it has been " posted," as it were, or entered in the index. It is not advisable that you should copy whatever you may meet in books which you expect to keep in your library, or which would be readily accessible. In such cases, it is sufficient to make, in the index to your commonplace-book (or in a work especially prepared for an Index Rernm, a mere note, under one or more heads, of the portions Puos. Int., July. Vol. I., No...
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Add this copy of Phonographic Odds and Ends Or the Phonographic to cart. $39.00, very good condition, Sold by T A Borden Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olney, MD, UNITED STATES, published by Andrew Graham.
