abbreviation

language

nationality

Italian

occupation / innovator as

neuroscientist

psychiatrist

innovator in the field of

neuroscience

religion

Anglicanism

politician

linguist

Member of Parliament

scientific organization

1st United Kingdom Parliament

is the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury.

Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously. John Horne Tooke, in Epea Pteroenta, or The Diversions of Purely (1786)

is an art, and a glorious one, whose influence extends over ail others, and in which all science whatever must centre; but an art springing from necessity, and originally invented by artless men.

Language is an art, and a glorious one, whose influence extends over ail others, and in which all science whatever must centre; but an art springing from necessity, and originally invented by artless men.

John Horne TookeThinkers

John Horne Tooke