Fonts of movable Types, from their firſt Introdu
ion into England until late in the eighteenth Century, contained—owing principally to the long “ſ” (= s) then in Uſe—far more Ligatures than the Fonts of the preſent Day. Johnſon’s Di
ionary furniſhes a Liſt which we here inſert, with their more modern Equivalents:
= ct; ſ = s; ſb = sb; ſh = sh; ſi = si; ſk = sk; ſſ = ss; ſt = st; ſſi = ssi; ſſl = ssl: and in italic,
= ct; ſ = s; ſb = sb; ſh = sh; ſk = sk; ſſ = ss; ſt = st; ſſi = ssi; ſſl = ssl.
It was our good Fortune, at a very early Period of Life, to attend a dame School, where a Book, printed in Glaſgow, in the Year 1756, was put into our Hands. This Book contained the Weſtminſter Larger and Shorter Catechiſms, and a Dire