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Excerpt from Shorthand: Its History and Its Prospects System after system appeared during the last and present centuries; and in 1815 - 1816 Mr. James Henry Lewis published his celebrated History of the Rise and Progress of Shorthand-a book to which all writers on Shorthand are much indebted for its most valuable information. In 1823, Mr. William Harding published his Universal Stenography, and a new edition appeared in 1860 (london, Van Voorst). In the Preface reference is made to an article in ms. By Mr. Hanbury in connexion with a verse in Ezekiel ix. 4, And set a mark. The Hebrew expression Tov (in) is familiar to us as the Greek Tan. Taken with[23. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.