An essay on punctuationWhittaker and Company, 1842 - 96 Seiten |
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... according to which he worketh all things . The following is an example of a sentence consisting of five members , in the form of a climax ; — We can do nothing well till we act with one accord : we can have no accord in action till we ...
... according to which he worketh all things . The following is an example of a sentence consisting of five members , in the form of a climax ; — We can do nothing well till we act with one accord : we can have no accord in action till we ...
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... according to Mr. Cobbett's own rule , it ought to have been divided from the former by a colon - point , or at least a semi - colon- point , and not by a full - point . MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE SEMI - COLON . The semi - colon of English ...
... according to Mr. Cobbett's own rule , it ought to have been divided from the former by a colon - point , or at least a semi - colon- point , and not by a full - point . MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE SEMI - COLON . The semi - colon of English ...
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... Dash is classed by Lindley Murray among the points : according to him it may be legitimately used , where a significant pause is required , -where a sentence breaks off abruptly , or where there is an unexpected PUNCTUATION . 37 The Dash,
... Dash is classed by Lindley Murray among the points : according to him it may be legitimately used , where a significant pause is required , -where a sentence breaks off abruptly , or where there is an unexpected PUNCTUATION . 37 The Dash,
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... PUNCTUATION is the art of marking in writing the several pauses , or rests , between sentences , and the parts of sent- ences , according to their proper quantity or proportion , APPENDIX Bishop Lowth's article on Punctuation,
... PUNCTUATION is the art of marking in writing the several pauses , or rests , between sentences , and the parts of sent- ences , according to their proper quantity or proportion , APPENDIX Bishop Lowth's article on Punctuation,
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... according to their proper value , admit of great variety ; but the whole number of Points , which we have to express this variety , amounts only to Four . Hence it is , that we are under a necessity of express- ing pauses of the same ...
... according to their proper value , admit of great variety ; but the whole number of Points , which we have to express this variety , amounts only to Four . Hence it is , that we are under a necessity of express- ing pauses of the same ...
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An Essay on Punctuation With Incidental Remarks on Composition (Classic Reprint) F. Francillon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
An Essay on Punctuation With Incidental Remarks on Composition (Classic Reprint) F. Francillon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adjuncts ancient ARISTOPHANES of Byzantium Art of Pointing articulate sounds Asyndeton BANBURY Bishop Lowth Blair born Brutum Orator Cicero clause colon and semi-colon colon-point comma comma-point connected dash denote destroyed Corinth discourse distinguished divided division edition eest ence English composition express full-point give Grammarians Greek hearer HENRY HOME Hyperbaton illustrative Imperfect Phrase inconvenient length instances interjection interrogation James Burrow Julius Scaliger Lanfranc language letter Lindley Murray loose sentence Lowth Lucius Mummius Marc marked Matthæi members and fragments mind nouns opinion parathesis parenthesis parenthesis-points passage passion perfect periodi Persian Emperor Philosophy of Rhetoric placed Port Royal Latin preceding member principal constructive printed printer pronoun proposition quæ Quinctilian quotation reader recast Rhetoricians Royal Latin Grammar says Scriptures semi-colon-points sense Sentence or Member Simple Members simple period Simple Sentence Sir James Burrow Thou translation Verb vex'd virgil voice Vossius words writers Wynkyn de Worde
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Seite 21 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Seite 60 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Seite 84 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.
Seite 63 - God, having designed man for a sociable creature, made him not only with an inclination and under a necessity to have fellowship with those of his own kind, but furnished him also with language, which was to be the great instrument and common tie of society.
Seite 53 - And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion...
Seite 63 - DUKE'S PALACE. Enter Duke, Curio, Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. IF musick be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again; — it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour.
Seite 18 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather.
Seite 84 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Seite 27 - I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amused me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write ; and I published because I was told, I might please such as it was a credit to please.
Seite 74 - What good he will do to mankind I know not ; this comfort he may be sure of, he cannot do less than you have done before him. . I have sometimes thought, that if preachers, hangmen, and...