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RULES
FOR
WRITING THE SMALL LETTERS.
Chance may spoil
A single aim; but Perſeverance must
Prosper at last. Home.
o RESEMBLES an oval, its breadth is two thirds of its length, and is the ſame with that of n, and is uſed as a meaſure for other letters.
The diſtance from the top to the bottom of o is generally called a length, and from the left to the right ſide of it a breadth, and the breadth of its downward ſtroke a thickneſs.
In making the o, begin on the right ſide, a third below the upper line.
When o forms a part of other letters, as a, d, g and q, it is a thickneſs leſs than a breadth.
b Is four lengths, and the ſame breadth as a and d at the bottom.
c Is made in the ſame manner as an o,
