This section is from the book "The Manual of Phonography", by Benn Pitman And Jerome B. Howard. Also available from Amazon: The Manual of Phonography.
Initial Hook Grammalogues. .
For each of the following grammalogues write the corresponding logogram, filling a line with each : Well, where, when, one, tell, till, twelve, call, difficult, difficulty, full, fully, only, principle, principal, principally, remember, remembered, truth, dear, care, from, every, very, three, their, there, sure, surely, pleasure, Mr., remark, remarked, remarkable, remarkably, more, near, nor.
1. It has been well remarked, "No smoke can arise till there has been a fire." 2. By close study and faithful practise many have been able to master phonography in a remarkably brief time. 3. We may rightly call health the vital principle of pleasure. 4. Few of us always remember how very important it is to do well whatever we may have to do. 5. Our principal care should be to live fully - with all our faculties at work to some useful purpose. 6. When twelve honest men have no difficulty to agree, the law takes their decision as being the truth. 7. It is difficult to tell the truth in all cases, but it is surely a brave and noble thing to do. 8. Every pleasure we enjoy, it should be remembered, flows principally from our actions. 9. He who goes far from home is sure to remark many strange sights. 10. We leave more to do when we die than we have done. II. Every pleasure seems dear to us in proportion as it is near. 12. Think of three things: Whence you come, where you go, and to whom you must answer. 13. It was Washington Irving who first wrote the remarkable expression, "the almighty dollar." 14. Only by full and free discussion can men hope to reach the truth in many difficult cases. 15. An honest man will make no rash promises, nor fail to keep one if he makes it.
 
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