Why We Punctuate, Or, Reason Vs. Rule in the Use of MarksLancet Publishing Company, 1897 - 160 pagina's |
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absence adjective adverb after-thought apparent relation apposition better called chapter chloroform Christ's Hospital clause clearly closing marks co-ordination colon comma is required comma marks connection continuity of thought covered the furniture dash disconnect draped my windows essential examples explanatory expressed following sentence gold color grammatical group of words growth of large heirs or assigns hung the walls Hurrah for Tippecanoe illustrated indicate intermediate term John Smith language laughing-gas manner mark of interrogation mark of punctuation marks of parenthesis matter mode of punctuation modifier natural order nitrous oxide noun omission omitted paren parenthetical parson pensions period placed politicians to quarrel preceding pages Prussia punct qualify reader real relation reasons discussed requires the comma Roman numerals rule Scotland semicolon sense shown single word Sotheby stand stars and stripes tence thetical Thomas Quiney thy majesty ticket will admit tion verb words constitute
Populaire passages
Pagina 33 - The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus ; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain : But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
Pagina 21 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Pagina 21 - 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...
Pagina 57 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pagina 20 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Pagina 22 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people.
Pagina 34 - Her freedom and her power have, for more than twenty centuries, been annihilated ; her people have degenerated into timid slaves ; her language, into a barbarous jargon ; her temples have been given up to the successive depredations of Romans, Turks, and Scotchmen : but her intellectual empire is imperishable.
Pagina 23 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces...
Pagina 21 - ... images in so clear a light, that it is impossible to be blind to them. The works of Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed, unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture, or play . for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others 'to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.
Pagina 22 - ... with his face to Mecca; the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols; the devotee swinging in the air; the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side; the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect; the turbans and the flowing robes; the spears and the silver maces; the elephants with their canopies of state; the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...