A Treatise on English Punctuation ...: 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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... matters belonging to Punctuation ; the groundwork being mainly , but not altogether , the article of Lindley Murray on that subject , introduced into the larger edition of his " English Grammar . " That book has been long out of print ...
... matters belonging to Punctuation ; the groundwork being mainly , but not altogether , the article of Lindley Murray on that subject , introduced into the larger edition of his " English Grammar . " That book has been long out of print ...
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... matter which is entirely new . The proper manner of using the book will depend altogether on the capabilities of the learner . If unversed in Punctuation , or but slightly acquainted with the art , it is recommended , that , after a ...
... matter which is entirely new . The proper manner of using the book will depend altogether on the capabilities of the learner . If unversed in Punctuation , or but slightly acquainted with the art , it is recommended , that , after a ...
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... matters which in delivery are as important , the inflec- tions , the intonations , the emphases , the calm , equable flow , or the wild torrent , of a good reader or an eloquent speaker . That grammatical and rhetorical punctuation are ...
... matters which in delivery are as important , the inflec- tions , the intonations , the emphases , the calm , equable flow , or the wild torrent , of a good reader or an eloquent speaker . That grammatical and rhetorical punctuation are ...
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... matter of the finest , the most deliberate calculation . The only test of goodness , virtue , is moral strength . Virtue , religion , is the one thing needful . Woe , woe , to the rider that tramples them down ! A steady , durable good ...
... matter of the finest , the most deliberate calculation . The only test of goodness , virtue , is moral strength . Virtue , religion , is the one thing needful . Woe , woe , to the rider that tramples them down ! A steady , durable good ...
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... matter of course , pause more or less after each particular , in accordance with the nature of the sentiment . i . But , when a series of nouns is resolvable into two or more phrases , each having two coupled words , a comma should be ...
... matter of course , pause more or less after each particular , in accordance with the nature of the sentiment . i . But , when a series of nouns is resolvable into two or more phrases , each having two coupled words , a comma should be ...
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abbreviated accent according acute accent adjectives adverb apostrophe beauty beginning capital letter character Christian clause colon comma composition compositor compound conjunction dash denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis English language example exhibiting expression faith feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven human hyphen inserted Italics JOHN JAMES TAYLER Julius Cæsar Knight Knight of St language Lord marks of parenthesis marks of quotation mind mode of punctuation moral nature notes of interrogation nouns occur omission omitted ORAL EXERCISE paragraph parenthetical passage philosopher placed poetry portion preceding prefixed preposition principles printers pron pronounced pronunciation proper names racter reference Remark e Remark g rhetorical Rule Rule II SECT semicolon separated small letters Society sometimes soul spirit syllable thee things thought thousand anc tion truth usually verb verse virtue vocative voice vowel writers written or printed
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Page 51 - 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.
Page 156 - 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 164 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 68 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 95 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 167 - Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above ;) or, Who shall descend into the deep ? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Page 259 - 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 134 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Page 182 - Alice's little right foot played an involuntary movement, till, upon my looking grave, it desisted — the best dancer, I was saying, in the county, till a cruel disease, called a cancer, came, and bowed her down with pain ; but it could never bend her good spirits, or make them stoop, but they were still upright, because she was so good and religious.
Page 171 - For I say unto you, that unto every one which hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.