The Elements of Punctuation: With Rules on the Use of Capital Letters, Being an Abridgment of the "Treatise on English Punctuation", Prepared for SchoolsCrosby, Nichols, 1857 - 168 páginas |
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abbreviations according adjective adverbial phrases adverbs agreeably apostrophe apposition beauty begin character Christian colon comma composition compound conjunction connected in sense consists construction dash denoting distinguished divine earth ellipsis English language English Punctuation EXAMPLES exclamation feel following sentences genius grammatical grave accent happiness heart heaven honor human hyphen inserted intellectual intermediate expressions Last of Remark live marks of parenthesis mind mode moral nature never nominative note of interrogation nouns omission omitted ORAL EXERCISES parenthetical passions pause period philosopher poet poetry portion preceding predicate prefix preposition principles pronoun pupil quotation racter reason relative clause relative pronoun religion Remark d Remark g Rule and Remarks Rule II semicolon separated Shakspeare Socrates sometimes soul spirit syllable TEACHER tence term thing thou thought tion true truth unpointed verb virtue vowel wisdom word or phrase write written youth
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Página 135 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Página 95 - 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 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,
Página 82 - As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist of such minute steps, are only perceivable by the distance.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...