An Essay on Punctuation: With Incidental Remarks on CompositionWhittaker and Company, 1842 - 96 pages |
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... Phrases and Words . " The Grammarians have followed this division of the Rhetoricians , and have appropriated to each of these distinctions its mark , or Point ; which takes its name from the part of the Sentence , which it is employed ...
... Phrases and Words . " The Grammarians have followed this division of the Rhetoricians , and have appropriated to each of these distinctions its mark , or Point ; which takes its name from the part of the Sentence , which it is employed ...
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... phrase . There certainly is a great difference between the use of marks for distinguishing word from word , or distin- guishing rests and measures , and the use of points for pointing out the several members and fragments of a period in ...
... phrase . There certainly is a great difference between the use of marks for distinguishing word from word , or distin- guishing rests and measures , and the use of points for pointing out the several members and fragments of a period in ...
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... phrase , if as much , to expect something more , it cannot come to a satisfied rest , until the word people has been attained . The truth or beauty of a thing is sometimes better understood , nay even discovered , by contrast ...
... phrase , if as much , to expect something more , it cannot come to a satisfied rest , until the word people has been attained . The truth or beauty of a thing is sometimes better understood , nay even discovered , by contrast ...
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... phrases of the sentence , of which it is a fragment . Vossius says , that with the ancient rhetoricians the comma was accounted an imperfect sentence , or a part of a period composed without a verb : 33 if , in English com- position , a ...
... phrases of the sentence , of which it is a fragment . Vossius says , that with the ancient rhetoricians the comma was accounted an imperfect sentence , or a part of a period composed without a verb : 33 if , in English com- position , a ...
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... phrase has arisen ; for instance the following period is high - pointed ; - Lucius Mummius , because he was ignorant , and illiterate , destroyed Corinth . The general and perhaps the better way of pointing such a period would be thus ...
... phrase has arisen ; for instance the following period is high - pointed ; - Lucius Mummius , because he was ignorant , and illiterate , destroyed Corinth . The general and perhaps the better way of pointing such a period would be thus ...
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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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