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His principle of always giving distinct marks for each different sound of the vowels has been since brought into more general use.

It forms the foundation of Pestalozzi's plan of teaching to read.

But one of the most useful of the marks in the Rational Primer, the mark of obliteration, designed to show what letters are to be omitted in pronouncing words, has not, I believe, been adopted by any public instructor.' Among the calls on Edgeworth's time about 1790 was the management of the embarrassed affairs of a relation; he had some difficulties with the creditors, but in trying to collect arrears of rent he found himself not only in difficulty, but in actual peril.
There existed in Ireland at this time a class of persons calling themselves gentlemen tenants--the worst tenants in the world -- middlemen, who relet the lands, and live upon the produce, not only in idleness, but in insolent idleness.
This kind of half gentry, or mock gentry, seemed to consider it as the most indisputable privilege of a gentleman not to pay his debts.
They were ever ready to meet civil law with military brag of war.
Whenever a swaggering debtor of this species was pressed for payment, he began by protesting or confessing that 'he considered himself used in an ungentlemanlike manner;' and ended by offering to give, instead of the value of his bond or promise, 'the satisfaction of a gentleman, at any hour or place.

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