Ars scribendi sine penna: or, the art of taking down sermons, trials, speeches, &c. verbatim, without pen and ink, and upon one page. A Work of the highest Importance to Members of Parliament, Ministers of State, Gentlemen of the Law, Physic, and Divinity, &c. &c. being calculated for every Profession in Life; is allowed and approved to be the most rational, easy, and speedy Method of taking down ever exhibited to public View. In this Work, previous Care has been taken, that every needful Explication may run through the Whole; and such occasional Recollections are added, as throw Light upon each Lesson, and effectually relieve the Memory. In a word, the Whole is founded on such a Plan, as neither the Wit of Man, nor any Period of Time, can, in any essential Part, alter. A careful Perusal of which gains the Approbation of, and strikes with Admiration, the Judicious and the Intelligent, the whole Art resting upon only thirteen arbitrary Characters

People / Organizations

• John Mitchell (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for the author, by J. Nichols, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street; and sold by J. Bew, No 28. Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783] Second edition, to which is added, the most excellent speech ever delivered by man.; ..

Publication year

1783

ESTC No.

T541

Grub Street ID

280967

Description

[2],76,[2]p.,table ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By John Mitchell

With a final errata leaf

Part of the text is in MS

Below imprint in square brackets: price Seven Shillings and Six Pence.