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Excerpt from Phonography, or Writing by Sound: Being a Natural Method of Writing, Applicable to All Languages, and a Complete System of Short Hand
2. Such was the origin of written language. These visible signs, invented at an early age, were, as might be expected, but imperfectly adapted to express the spoken language; they were complicated and uncouth.
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