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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... present form , but in its past , this book is the most complete of any on the subject that he has seen . And now , three years after the author's death , this edi- tion . the twentieth - is offered to the public , in the hope that it ...
... present form , but in its past , this book is the most complete of any on the subject that he has seen . And now , three years after the author's death , this edi- tion . the twentieth - is offered to the public , in the hope that it ...
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... present either re - create the old materials , or fashion new ones , for the delight and improvement of their own generation ; and transmit to the future to beings yet unborn their treasures of wisdom , of genius , and of love . This ...
... present either re - create the old materials , or fashion new ones , for the delight and improvement of their own generation ; and transmit to the future to beings yet unborn their treasures of wisdom , of genius , and of love . This ...
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... present to the eye either their own thoughts or the thoughts of others . The man of science , the mental philosopher , and the philologist seem to regard it as too * In the note at the end of this section , page 18 , will be found a few ...
... present to the eye either their own thoughts or the thoughts of others . The man of science , the mental philosopher , and the philologist seem to regard it as too * In the note at the end of this section , page 18 , will be found a few ...
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... present to his teacher these trials of his skill , to be examined and approved or corrected . By this means will he soon be capable of so punctuating his own compositions as to be read by others with ease , pleasure , and advantage ...
... present to his teacher these trials of his skill , to be examined and approved or corrected . By this means will he soon be capable of so punctuating his own compositions as to be read by others with ease , pleasure , and advantage ...
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... present to the public eye in a readable con- dition what would otherwise be an ill - digested mass of letters and words . When it is considered that he has not unfrequently to perform this task amid doubts and difficulties arising from ...
... present to the public eye in a readable con- dition what would otherwise be an ill - digested mass of letters and words . When it is considered that he has not unfrequently to perform this task amid doubts and difficulties arising from ...
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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.