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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... usually accompanied by marks or points , to enable the reader to comprehend at a glance the precise and deter- minate sense of the author , a sense which , without these marks , would in many instances be gathered only by an elaborate ...
... usually accompanied by marks or points , to enable the reader to comprehend at a glance the precise and deter- minate sense of the author , a sense which , without these marks , would in many instances be gathered only by an elaborate ...
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... usually called imperfect phrases ; but the definition just given will preclude the necessity of using the epithet . An article or any unemphatic word and a noun , or the simple infinitive , as , a book , the man , to love , - will , to ...
... usually called imperfect phrases ; but the definition just given will preclude the necessity of using the epithet . An article or any unemphatic word and a noun , or the simple infinitive , as , a book , the man , to love , - will , to ...
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... usually represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon and the Colon separate those portions which are less connected than those divided by commas , and admit each of a greater pause ; and the Period is , what its name denotes , a full ...
... usually represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon and the Colon separate those portions which are less connected than those divided by commas , and admit each of a greater pause ; and the Period is , what its name denotes , a full ...
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... usually required before the conjunction ; as , " Donations will be thankfully received , and applied to the benefit of the suffering poor . " " - " Twas certain he could write , and cipher too . " e . The comma , however , is not ...
... usually required before the conjunction ; as , " Donations will be thankfully received , and applied to the benefit of the suffering poor . " " - " Twas certain he could write , and cipher too . " e . The comma , however , is not ...
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... usually be avoided by a happier construction of such sentences . i . When the conjunction or stands between two nouns , or be- tween a noun and a phrase , which are synonymous , or of which the latter is explanatory of the former , they ...
... usually be avoided by a happier construction of such sentences . i . When the conjunction or stands between two nouns , or be- tween a noun and a phrase , which are synonymous , or of which the latter is explanatory of the former , they ...
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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.