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, EtcCincinnati [etc.] American book Company, 1871 - 334 páginas |
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... DASH . Pages 148 150 150 158 154 ? 155 159 167 168 Remarks on the Use and Abuse of the Dash . 174 Broken and Epigrammatic Sentences 175 A Concluding Clause on which other Expressions depend 178 The Echo , or Words repeated Rhetorically ...
... DASH . Pages 148 150 150 158 154 ? 155 159 167 168 Remarks on the Use and Abuse of the Dash . 174 Broken and Epigrammatic Sentences 175 A Concluding Clause on which other Expressions depend 178 The Echo , or Words repeated Rhetorically ...
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... by giving it " a local habitation and a name ; " while a different one discards the colon alto- gether as a useless point . Some grammarians would unfeelingly lop off the dash , as an excrescence on 12 INTRODUCTION . SEOT II TUATION.
... by giving it " a local habitation and a name ; " while a different one discards the colon alto- gether as a useless point . Some grammarians would unfeelingly lop off the dash , as an excrescence on 12 INTRODUCTION . SEOT II TUATION.
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... dash , as an excrescence on a printed leaf ; but others , again , are so partial to its form and use as to call in its aid on every possible occasion . The objection has , on purpose , been strongly stated . But might not similar ...
... dash , as an excrescence on a printed leaf ; but others , again , are so partial to its form and use as to call in its aid on every possible occasion . The objection has , on purpose , been strongly stated . But might not similar ...
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... dash , the apostrophe , the hyphen , and the quotation - marks . For though these may be regarded as minor points , when compared to others of a more grammatical nature , yet they occur so frequently that no work on Punctuation which ...
... dash , the apostrophe , the hyphen , and the quotation - marks . For though these may be regarded as minor points , when compared to others of a more grammatical nature , yet they occur so frequently that no work on Punctuation which ...
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... dash partake more of a rhetorical character than the common and principal points ; and in this light we will consider them in the following pages . But , on the whole , it will be found that the art of Punctuation is founded rather on ...
... dash partake more of a rhetorical character than the common and principal points ; and in this light we will consider them in the following pages . But , on the whole , it will be found that the art of Punctuation is founded rather on ...
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Página 136 - 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.
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