Treatise on English Punctuation: Designed for Letter-writers, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of the Press; and for the Use of Schools and Academies ...American book Company, 1871 - 334 páginas |
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... nature , which requires so much expe- rience and accuracy , and for the preparation of which so little aid , comparatively speaking , can be derived from other writers , all is not yet effected that can be done to simplify , and to put ...
... nature , which requires so much expe- rience and accuracy , and for the preparation of which so little aid , comparatively speaking , can be derived from other writers , all is not yet effected that can be done to simplify , and to put ...
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... nature sufficiently ludicrous , show in a forcible manner the necessity of paying a due regard to punctuation . Many happy illustrations of the importance of correct marks may also be seen in Day's valuable little work , entitled ...
... nature sufficiently ludicrous , show in a forcible manner the necessity of paying a due regard to punctuation . Many happy illustrations of the importance of correct marks may also be seen in Day's valuable little work , entitled ...
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... nature of their pursuits , they are the best able and most bound to learn . Besides , it is worthy of remark , that , by habituating themselves to the practice of pointing , their attention will naturally be directed to clearness of ...
... nature of their pursuits , they are the best able and most bound to learn . Besides , it is worthy of remark , that , by habituating themselves to the practice of pointing , their attention will naturally be directed to clearness of ...
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... nature , yet they occur so frequently that no work on Punctuation which passes them over with only a few brief and hasty remarks can be considered practically and generally useful . Another cause of the neglect and misapprehension to ...
... nature , yet they occur so frequently that no work on Punctuation which passes them over with only a few brief and hasty remarks can be considered practically and generally useful . Another cause of the neglect and misapprehension to ...
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... nature . The poet , the statuary , the painter , have produced images , that left nature far behind . " But let the same sentence be punctuated by the rules of grammar , and not by those of rhetoric , and with the sole view of ...
... nature . The poet , the statuary , the painter , have produced images , that left nature far behind . " But let the same sentence be punctuated by the rules of grammar , and not by those of rhetoric , and with the sole view of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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 169 - But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, 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...
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 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.
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 121 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold...
Página 139 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Página 114 - Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Página 231 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.