A Treatise on English Punctuation: Designed for Letter-writers, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of the Press, and for the Use of Schools and Academies. 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, EtcCrosby, Nichols, and Company, 1856 - 334 pagini |
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Pagina 2
... hearts and the minds of others , is entitled to no small degree of attention . Now , it is indisputable that Punctuation does conduce to make written language more effective , by exhibiting with greater precision and definiteness the ...
... hearts and the minds of others , is entitled to no small degree of attention . Now , it is indisputable that Punctuation does conduce to make written language more effective , by exhibiting with greater precision and definiteness the ...
Pagina 7
... heart , and ennoble the mind , of the reader , surely they should be careful that that beauty be not marred , that that pathos be not unfelt , that that vigor be not weakened , that that discourse be not shorn of half its power over the ...
... heart , and ennoble the mind , of the reader , surely they should be careful that that beauty be not marred , that that pathos be not unfelt , that that vigor be not weakened , that that discourse be not shorn of half its power over the ...
Pagina 21
... heart aches within . 5. Gentleness often disarms the fierce , and melts the stubborn . When the subject of a proposition is itself a sentence , or contains a finite verb , as in No. 1 , above , it is called a nominative clause ; when a ...
... heart aches within . 5. Gentleness often disarms the fierce , and melts the stubborn . When the subject of a proposition is itself a sentence , or contains a finite verb , as in No. 1 , above , it is called a nominative clause ; when a ...
Pagina 25
... heart the freezing stones of the pavement , than the delicate maiden for whose dainty soles Brussels and Turkey have been overcareful ; and I doubt not but some remembered scrap of childish song hath often been a truer alms than all the ...
... heart the freezing stones of the pavement , than the delicate maiden for whose dainty soles Brussels and Turkey have been overcareful ; and I doubt not but some remembered scrap of childish song hath often been a truer alms than all the ...
Pagina 31
... heart . Within and without us are many foes to rectitude . According to Remarks in pages 28-30 , state the reasons for the omission or the insertion of commas between conjoined words in the following sentences : — The youth wrote ...
... heart . Within and without us are many foes to rectitude . According to Remarks in pages 28-30 , state the reasons for the omission or the insertion of commas between conjoined words in the following sentences : — The youth wrote ...
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
abbreviated accent according acute accent adjectives adverb apostrophe beauty begin capital letter character Christian clause colon comma composition compositor compound conjunction dash denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis employed English language example exhibiting expression faith feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven human hyphen inserted Italics JOHN JAMES TAYLER 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 pronoun pronunciation proper names racter reference relative pronoun Remark e Remark g rhetorical Rule Rule II SECT semicolon separated small letters Society sometimes soul spirit syllable thee things thou thought thousand anc tion truth usually verb verse virtue voice vowel writers written or printed
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 156 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 139 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Pagina 44 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.