A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore].

  • Northmore, Thomas, 1766-1851
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contribute in the lead either to their amufement, or to their advantage. P. S. The Univerfal Chara&ers, hi¬ therto attempted, have been framed upon the balls of fubftituting new words in lieu of thole already in ufe; whereas this character reds upon the principle of adding a new general medium to each particular one : The principle of the former adopts figns for things; that of the latter, figns for words; and confequently eftablilhes, as it were, two intermediate fteps between ideas and things. An 1