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...and tedious to be read, even by those who were used to manuscripts, and to this method; and often led the inattentive reader into mistakes. Their orthography...them. Their periods were distinguished by no other point than the double or single one, that is, the colon or full point; but they a little after, introduced...

...tedious to be read, even by those who were used to manuscripts, and to this method ; and often led the inattentive reader into mistakes. Their orthography...grew so numerous and difficult to be understood, that it became necessary to write They left blank spaces for titles, and initial letters or other ornaments,...

...times. The words were printed so closely to one another, that it was difficult and tedious to read them. They had very frequent abbreviations, which in time...there was a necessity of writing a book to teach the method of reading them. No capital letters were used to begin a sentence, or for proper names of men...

...mistakes. The orthography was various and often arbitrary, disregarding method. Words were subjected to frequent abbreviations, which in time grew so numerous...writing a book to teach the manner of reading them. Periods were distinguished by no other points than the double or single one, that is, the colon and...