The Elements of Punctuation: With Rules on the Use of Capital Letters : Being an Abridgement of the "Treatise on English Punctuation." : Prepared for SchoolsCrosby, Nichols, 1856 - 152 страници |
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according adjective adverb agreeably antecedent apostrophe apposition beauty beginning better capital character Christianity colon comma compound conjunction connected in sense consists construction dash denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis eloquence EXAMPLES exclamation feelings following sentences full point genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven honor human hyphen infinite intellectual intermediate expressions Last of Remark left unpointed live marks of parenthesis mind mode moral nature never nominative note of interrogation noun omission ORAL EXERCISES parenthetical passage pause period philosopher poet poetry portion predicate preposition principles pupil qualified quotation R. H. Dana racter relative clause relative pronoun religion Remark d Remark g rhetorical Rule and Remarks Rule II semicolon separated Socrates sometimes soul speaking speech spirit TEACHER tence term things thou thought tion true truth unpointed verb virtue voice wisdom wise word or phrase writers WRITTEN youth
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Страница 26 - 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.
Страница 3 - 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.
Страница 83 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? 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.
Страница 52 - No, sir, this is not the character of the virtue, and it soars higher for its object. It is an extended self-love, mingling with all the enjoyments of life, and twisting itself with the minutest filaments of the heart. It is thus we obey the laws of society, because they are the laws of virtue. In their authority we see, not the array of force and terror, but the venerable image of our country's honor.
Страница 120 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Страница 6 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Страница 104 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Страница 39 - 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.
Страница 135 - I do not now wonder that your reputation is so far extended ; we have heard at Cairo of your wisdom, and came hither to implore your direction for this young man and maiden in the choice of life." "To him that lives well, answered the hermit, every form of life is good; nor can I give any other rule for choice, than to remove from all apparent evil." "He will remove most certainly from evil, said the prince, who shall devote himself to that solitude which you have recommended by your example.
Страница 52 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...