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 Proof-sheet, EtcAmerican Book Company, 1899 - 334 páginas |
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... genius , and of love . This power , it is needless to say , is language , oral and written , especially the latter . But as oral speech has its tones and inflections , its pauses and its emphases , and other variations of voice , to ...
... genius , and of love . This power , it is needless to say , is language , oral and written , especially the latter . But as oral speech has its tones and inflections , its pauses and its emphases , and other variations of voice , to ...
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... genius , or their condition in life , to enter upon any of the walks of literature , whether they would tread an humble and a beaten track , or wander into paths adorned by flowers and fruit . It is related to philology and metaphysics ...
... genius , or their condition in life , to enter upon any of the walks of literature , whether they would tread an humble and a beaten track , or wander into paths adorned by flowers and fruit . It is related to philology and metaphysics ...
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... genius , they can have no difficulty in writing so as to be understood . If they have thoughts worthy of being communicated through the agency of the pen and the press , they surely cannot with justice regard it as any degradation of ...
... genius , they can have no difficulty in writing so as to be understood . If they have thoughts worthy of being communicated through the agency of the pen and the press , they surely cannot with justice regard it as any degradation of ...
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... genius ; while they see the rest of mankind , painfully struggling , to comprehend obvious truths ; glance , themselves , through the most remote consequences ; like lightning , through a path , that cannot be traced ; they see the ...
... genius ; while they see the rest of mankind , painfully struggling , to comprehend obvious truths ; glance , themselves , through the most remote consequences ; like lightning , through a path , that cannot be traced ; they see the ...
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... genius , we must pronounce them intrinsically most valuable . But what shall we say when we reflect that from hence have sprung , directly or indirectly , all the noblest creations of the human intellect ; that from hence were the vast ...
... genius , we must pronounce them intrinsically most valuable . But what shall we say when we reflect that from hence have sprung , directly or indirectly , all the noblest creations of the human intellect ; that from hence were the vast ...
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abbreviated accent according adjectives adverb apostrophe beauty beginning capital letter character Christian clause colon comma composition compositor compound conjunction construction dash denotes distinguished divine earth ellipsis English language example excellence exclamation exhibiting expression faith feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven honor human hyphen immortal inserted interrogation JOHN JAMES TAYLER Knight of St language live marks of parenthesis mind mode of punctuation moral nature nominative noun omission omitted ORAL EXERCISES parenthetical passage pause philosopher placed poet poetry portion preceding preposition principles printers pron pronoun proper names racter reference relative pronoun religion Remark d Remark g rhetorical Rule Rule II semicolon separated small letters Society Socrates sometimes soul spirit syllable tences thee things thou thought tion truth verb virtue vocative voice word or phrase writers written or printed
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Página 169 - 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...
Página 202 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Página 163 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Página 244 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still ; and said, " I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Página 169 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Página 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.
Página 70 - 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.
Página 163 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space ; were it not that I have bad dreams.
Página 107 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
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.