An essay on punctuationWhittaker and Company, 1842 - 96 pages |
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... never used but in a secondary meaning : -this is the case , in the English language , with the words colon , semi - colon , and comma ; in the place of their signifying members or fragments of a period , they only raise in the minds of ...
... never used but in a secondary meaning : -this is the case , in the English language , with the words colon , semi - colon , and comma ; in the place of their signifying members or fragments of a period , they only raise in the minds of ...
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... never perfect , when the mind of the reader or the hearer is brought to a rest at any part , before the period is actually ended . Lucius Mummius destroyed Corinth . This is an example of a period of only one member : the mind cannot ...
... never perfect , when the mind of the reader or the hearer is brought to a rest at any part , before the period is actually ended . Lucius Mummius destroyed Corinth . This is an example of a period of only one member : the mind cannot ...
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... never be used but to point an actual question : an ill use of its point is made in the following example ; — If there should be a debate between a Protestant and a Catholic , whether there is such a place as purgatory ? let them ...
... never be used but to point an actual question : an ill use of its point is made in the following example ; — If there should be a debate between a Protestant and a Catholic , whether there is such a place as purgatory ? let them ...
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... never to be used independently . Some writers have contended for the propriety of other points , than those now commonly in use ; for instance Dr. Ward , the Gresham professor , proposed a point to be called the semi - period ; —but if ...
... never to be used independently . Some writers have contended for the propriety of other points , than those now commonly in use ; for instance Dr. Ward , the Gresham professor , proposed a point to be called the semi - period ; —but if ...
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... never produce that peculiar beauty , which is perceived , when the sense comes out clearly and distinct- ly , by means of a happy arrangement . " 47 Punctuation may make , but can never , altogether remove , an ambig- uity it is often ...
... never produce that peculiar beauty , which is perceived , when the sense comes out clearly and distinct- ly , by means of a happy arrangement . " 47 Punctuation may make , but can never , altogether remove , an ambig- uity it is often ...
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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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