A Treatise on English Punctuation: Designed for Letter-writers, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of the Press, and for the Use of Schools and Academies. With an Appendix, Containing Rules on the Use of Capitals, a List of Abbreviations, Hints on the Preparation of Copy and on Proof-reading, Specimen of Proof-sheet, Etc |
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... exhibits a series of words ; the second , of phrases ; the third , of clauses . What are termed by elocutionists the members of a series will in this work be called particulars . XII . A COMPOUND WORD consists of two or more simple or ...
... exhibits a series of words ; the second , of phrases ; the third , of clauses . What are termed by elocutionists the members of a series will in this work be called particulars . XII . A COMPOUND WORD consists of two or more simple or ...
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... exhibit any pause whatever , but merely the grammatical division , as in the expression , " Yes , sir ; " where , in common or unemphatic discourse , no pause can be made between the words . c . On this subject all elocutionists are ...
... exhibit any pause whatever , but merely the grammatical division , as in the expression , " Yes , sir ; " where , in common or unemphatic discourse , no pause can be made between the words . c . On this subject all elocutionists are ...
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... exhibit- ing the constituent parts of sentences ; and , second , those which are unmarked , — such rhetorical pauses as are omitted in writing and printing , but required in reading aloud . Thus , in the examples under the rule , the ...
... exhibit- ing the constituent parts of sentences ; and , second , those which are unmarked , — such rhetorical pauses as are omitted in writing and printing , but required in reading aloud . Thus , in the examples under the rule , the ...
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... exhibit any thing divine . It is our duty to appropriate our time to valuable purposes . EXERCISE TO BE WRITTEN . Insert commas only where required by the preceding Remarks : - Reason and true philosophy never attempt , in their ...
... exhibit any thing divine . It is our duty to appropriate our time to valuable purposes . EXERCISE TO BE WRITTEN . Insert commas only where required by the preceding Remarks : - Reason and true philosophy never attempt , in their ...
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... exhibit the proper modes of punctuation : - 1. It is probable that every planet ( as the Creator has made nothing in vain ) is inhabited . 2. The benevolent and pious man , even when persecuted , is , on the whole , a happy man . The ...
... exhibit the proper modes of punctuation : - 1. It is probable that every planet ( as the Creator has made nothing in vain ) is inhabited . 2. The benevolent and pious man , even when persecuted , is , on the whole , a happy man . The ...
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviated according adjectives apostrophe appear beauty begin called capitals character Christian clauses colon comma common composition compound connected consists construction dash distinguished earth employed example excellence EXERCISE exhibiting expression faith feel figures following sentences genius given hand happiness heart heaven human hundred hyphen indicate inserted introduced kind Knight language laws less letters live look mark means mind mode moral names nature never nouns object occur omitted parenthesis passage period persons phrases placed portion preceding present principles printed proper punctuation quotation reason reference regard Remark Rule semicolon sense sentences separated Society sometimes soul spirit term things thou thought tion true truth usually verb virtue voice words writers written
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Page 231 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 158 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 156 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 88 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 139 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Page 44 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 176 - When JESUS, therefore, saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
Page 159 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 261 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 53 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.