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 the famous discovery of the Dutch philologers, namely, that the parts of speech are all reducible to the noun and verb, or to the noun alone. Leibnitz, in a letter to Thomas Burnet of Kemney, dated in 1697, alludes to the ‘Ars Signorum.’ Both works were reprinted by Lord Cockburn and Mr. Thomas Maitland for the Maitland Club of Glasgow in 1834. A notice by Sir William Hamilton of this edition was reprinted from the ‘Edinburgh Review’ for July 1835 in his ‘Discussions,’ pp. 174 et seq. In MS. Sloane 4377, ff. 139–46, are the following printed tracts by Dalgarno, explaining his system of shorthand: 1. A pamphlet in Latin, commencing ‘Omnibus Omnino Hominibus,’ signed ‘Geo. Dalgarno,’ on universal language, 4to, 8 pp., in print. 2. ‘News to the Whole World of the Discovery of an Universal Character, and a New Rational Language, &c., by Geo. Dalgarno,’ then dwelling at Mr. Samuel Hartlib's house, near Charing Cross, fol., 1 p., in print. 3. ‘Character Universalis, per Geo. Dalgarno. … A New Discovery of the Universal Character, containing also a more readie and approved way of Shorthand Writing than any heretofore practised in this nation, by Geo. Dalgarno,’ in print, Latin and English, 4to, 1 p. 4. ‘Tables of the Universal Character, so contrived that the practice of them exceeds all former wayes of Shorthand Writing, and are applicable to all languages.’ Tables of particles, radicall verbs and adjectives, and radicall substantives, with their contraries. With a preface to Doctors Wilkins and Ward of Oxford, grammatical observations, &c., large fol., 4pp., in print. In the same volume are the following manuscript pieces by Dalgarno (ff. 147, &c.): (1) A letter in Latin from Faustus Morsteyn, ‘a nobleman of the Greater Poland,’ residing at Oxford, 11 April 1657, in praise of Dalgarno's scheme, manuscript. (2) A copy of Mr. Dalgarno's letter written to Mr. Hartlib, Oxford, 20 April 1657, describing the merits of his universal language, and writing surpassing ‘all inventions of tachygraphy,’ manuscript. (3) Letter of Hartlib, ‘Tiguri, 1657, July 18, 28,’ stating that the whole Bible can be written in nine or ten sheets with Dalgarno's shorthand. At the top is a specimen, St. John's gospel, xvi. 1–13, v., manuscript. (4) Letter of Dalgarno, ‘Zurich, 26 Dec. (old style) 1657,’ to Monsieur Pell, in English, descriptive of his universal shorthand character, with specimens, fol., 5 pp., manuscript. (5) Letter of Dalgarno, London, 17 Feb. 1658, to Honorable Mr. William Brereton, afterwards Lord Brereton, on his characters, with specimens, manuscript. (6) Testimonial of Dalgarno's scheme from Richard Love, professor of divinity, Cambridge, 1658, print and manuscript. (7 and 8) Other papers in manuscript on the application of the scheme to arithmetical numbers.

[Tupper's Hist. of Guernsey, 2nd edit. p. 161; Chambers's Em. Scotsmen (Thomson), i. 425; Introd. to Dalgarno's Works (Maitland Club); Penny Cyclopædia, viii. 290; Stewart's Works (Hamilton), i. 602–3, ii. 197, 486–7, iii. 339, 341, 342; Hallam's Introd. to Literature of Europe (4th edit.), iii. 362, 363; Edinburgh Review, lxi. 407–17; Leibnitz's Opera Omnia (Geneva, 1768), vol. vi. pt. i. p. 262; Dr. J. Westby-Gibson's Bibliography of Shorthand, pp. 50–1; Irving's Scottish Writers, ii. 107–10; Add. MSS. 29553 ff. 445, 453, 29554 f. 39.] 

DALGLEISH, WILLIAM, D.D. (1733–1807), theological writer, was educated at the university of Edinburgh; ordained to the ministry of Peebles in 1761, and remained in that charge till his death in 1807. ‘He was distinguished by superior endowments of mind, eminent qualifications for the ministry, fervent piety, persuasive eloquence, sweet temper, and unwearied diligence.’ He received the degree of D.D. from the university of Edinburgh in 1786. He wrote: 1. ‘The True Sonship of Christ investigated,’ London, 1776, anon. [This work was animadverted on by the Rev. Adam Gib in ‘An Antidote against a New Heresy concerning the true Sonship of Jesus Christ; as also an Appendix concerning the Wonderful Theory of Animalcular Generation, as lately brought in by a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, for the proper ground of the Fundamental Article of the Christian Religion. By Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh.’ It was also attacked by Rev. Michael Arthur, Peebles, in ‘The Scripture Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of Christ as the Son of God vindicated in answer to a late treatise entitled “The True Sonship,” &c.’] In reply Dalgliesh published: 2. ‘The Self-existence and Supreme Deity of Christ defended,’ Edin. 1777. 3. ‘Sermons on the Chief Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion,’ 4 vols. Edin. 1799–1807. 4. ‘Religion, its Importance, &c.’ Edin. 1801. 5. ‘Addresses and Prayers,’ Edin. 1804.

[Scott's Fasti; Sinclair's Stat. Acct. of Scotland.] 

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