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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... indicating Passion or Emotion SECT . II . MARKS OF PARENTHESIS . Observations on Parentheses , and Marks of Parenthesis Words thrown obliquely into the Body of a Sentence . SECT . III . THE DASH . Pages 148 150 150 158 154 ? 155 159 167 ...
... indicating Passion or Emotion SECT . II . MARKS OF PARENTHESIS . Observations on Parentheses , and Marks of Parenthesis Words thrown obliquely into the Body of a Sentence . SECT . III . THE DASH . Pages 148 150 150 158 154 ? 155 159 167 ...
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... indicating , as accurately as possible , what they do really intend to say . If there is beauty in their style ; if there is pathos in their sentiments ; if there is moral and intel- lectual vigor in the thoughts that burn for utterance ...
... indicating , as accurately as possible , what they do really intend to say . If there is beauty in their style ; if there is pathos in their sentiments ; if there is moral and intel- lectual vigor in the thoughts that burn for utterance ...
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... indicating the definite pro- portions of the stops made in reading aloud . Hence not a few writers and authors point their manuscript exactly as they would recite it , in accordance with their power of enunciation , with the quickness ...
... indicating the definite pro- portions of the stops made in reading aloud . Hence not a few writers and authors point their manuscript exactly as they would recite it , in accordance with their power of enunciation , with the quickness ...
Página 16
... indicating the sense of the passage , it would appear as follows : - " Men of superior genius , while they see the rest of mankind painfully struggling to comprehend obvious truths , glance themselves through the most remote ...
... indicating the sense of the passage , it would appear as follows : - " Men of superior genius , while they see the rest of mankind painfully struggling to comprehend obvious truths , glance themselves through the most remote ...
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... indicate the various kinds of sentences , and the parts of which they consist . Thus the Period signified a complete ... indicated a smaller segment of the period , the least constructive part of a sentence . 27 SECT . I. — THE COMMA ...
... indicate the various kinds of sentences , and the parts of which they consist . Thus the Period signified a complete ... indicated a smaller segment of the period , the least constructive part of a sentence . 27 SECT . I. — THE COMMA ...
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abbreviated accent according adjectives adverb apostrophe beauty beginning character Christian clause colon comma composition compositor compound conjunction construction dash Demosthenes denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis English language example exclamation exhibiting expression faith feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven honor human hyphen inserted Italics JOHN JAMES TAYLER Knight of St language marks of parenthesis marks of quotation mind mode of punctuation moral nature nominative noun occur omission omitted ORAL EXERCISES paragraph parenthetical passage philosopher placed poet poetry portion preceding prefixed preposition principles printers pron pronoun pronunciation proper names racter reference relative pronoun religion Remark d Remark g rhetorical Rule Rule II semicolon separated small letters Society sometimes soul spirit syllable thee things thou thought thousand anc tion truth verb verse virtue vocative voice vowel writers written or printed
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Página 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?
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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 97 - 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.
Página 173 - 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.
Página 163 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie!
Página 21 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Página 196 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Página 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.