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, EtcJ. Wilson & son, 1855 - 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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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviated accent according acute accent adjectives adverb apostrophe beauty beginning capital letter character Christian clause colon comma composition compositor compound conjunction dash denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis English language example exhibiting expression faith feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven human hyphen inserted Italics JOHN JAMES TAYLER Julius Cæsar Knight Knight of St language Lord marks of parenthesis marks of quotation mind mode of punctuation moral nature notes of interrogation nouns occur omission omitted ORAL EXERCISE paragraph parenthetical passage philosopher placed poetry portion preceding prefixed preposition principles printers pron pronounced pronunciation proper names racter reference Remark e Remark g rhetorical Rule Rule II SECT semicolon separated small letters Society sometimes soul spirit syllable thee things thought thousand anc tion truth usually verb verse virtue vocative voice vowel writers written or printed
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Página 51 - 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 156 - 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 164 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 68 - 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 95 - 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 167 - 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 dead, thou shalt be saved.
Página 259 - 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 134 - 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 182 - Alice's little right foot played an involuntary movement, till, upon my looking grave, it desisted — the best dancer, I was saying, in the county, till a cruel disease, called a cancer, came, and bowed her down with pain ; but it could never bend her good spirits, or make them stoop, but they were still upright, because she was so good and religious.
Página 171 - 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.