A Treatise on English Punctuation: Designed for Letter-writers, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of the Press [etc.]Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1856 |
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... 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 which correct ...
... 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 which correct ...
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... occurring as they often do in animated composition , and being used for the twofold purpose of bringing out the sense and aiding the deli- very , are entitled to be spoken of as both grammatical and rhetorical . We will , lastly , speak ...
... occurring as they often do in animated composition , and being used for the twofold purpose of bringing out the sense and aiding the deli- very , are entitled to be spoken of as both grammatical and rhetorical . We will , lastly , speak ...
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... occur in the rules and remarks , and without a due knowledge of which he would be unable fully to comprehend the laws of Punctuation . The terms alluded to , then , are defined and illustrated as follow : DEFINITIONS . I. A SENTENCE is ...
... occur in the rules and remarks , and without a due knowledge of which he would be unable fully to comprehend the laws of Punctuation . The terms alluded to , then , are defined and illustrated as follow : DEFINITIONS . I. A SENTENCE is ...
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... occur , are not essential to the construction . Of these a fuller description , with illustrations , will be given under the rule which treats of the mode of punctuating them . - IX . CORRELATIVES . When two words express reciprocal ...
... occur , are not essential to the construction . Of these a fuller description , with illustrations , will be given under the rule which treats of the mode of punctuating them . - IX . CORRELATIVES . When two words express reciprocal ...
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... occur in which the comma is so far from indicating the shortest pause , that a cessation of the voice equal to the ... occurs some- times where there should be no pause in reading or speaking ; nor can the length of any required stop be ...
... occur in which the comma is so far from indicating the shortest pause , that a cessation of the voice equal to the ... occurs some- times where there should be no pause in reading or speaking ; nor can the length of any required stop be ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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 inserted interrogation JOHN JAMES TAYLER Knight 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 thee things thou thought tion truth verb verse 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 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 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 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 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 177 - I saw him pale and feverish; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time; nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice. His children But here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 131 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Página 98 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use 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 176 - When JESUS, therefore, saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.