The principles of English punctuation, preceded by brief explanations of the parts of speechSmallfield and Son, 1838 |
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Common terms and phrases
Absalom Acute accent added adjectives admit a comma adverbs altered apostrophe beginning called capitals caret circumflex clauses colon composition compositor conjunction connected correct declension Deity denote distinguish ellipsis English Exam Examples exclamation exclamatory sentences feeling or action friends grave accent Herodotus honour horse inclined line infinitive mood inserted Interjection introduced junctive language Latin letters or words long dash longer pause Lord margin means Neuter NEWGATE-STREET nomi nominative note of admiration note of interrogation nouns object omission omitted Oreb paragraph parenthesis parenthetical marks Participle pause is required person ples plural point of Interrogation preceded Prepositions Principles of Punctuation printer pronouns proof quotation quoted reading rections remark Rule II rules for pointing semicolon sense sepa separated shewn shews short silent e singular SMALLFIELD speech supply the place syllables terminated thee thing thou tion tive treatise verb virtue vocative vowel written or printed
Popular passages
Page 33 - Nature confessed some atonement to be necessary : the gospel discovers that the necessary atonement is made." 2. When several semicolons have preceded, and a still greater pause is necessary, in order to mark the connecting or concluding sentiment: as, " A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these...
Page 30 - As the desire of approbation, when it works according to reason, improves the amiable part of our species in every thing that is laudable ; so nothing is more destructive to them when it is governed by vanity and folly.
Page 37 - Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? Selah.
Page 51 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 44 - 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.
Page 25 - OBSERVING one person behold another, who was an utter stranger to him, with a cast of his eye, which methought expressed an emotion of heart very different from what could be raised by an object so agreeable as the gentleman he looked at, I began to consider, not without some secret sorrow, the condition of an envious man. Some have fancied that envy has a certain magical force in it, and that the eyes of the envious have, by their fascination, blasted the enjoyments of the happy. Sir Francis Bacon...
Page 37 - Will the LORD cast off for ever ? and will He be favourable no more? Is His mercy clean gone for ever ? doth His promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies...
Page 32 - O lover of the desert, hail ! Say, in what deep and pathless vale, Or on what hoary mountain's side...
Page 29 - The semicolon is used for dividing a compound sentence into two or more parts, not so closely connected as those which are separated by a comma, nor yet so little dependent on each other, as those which are distinguished by a colon. " The semicolon is sometimes used, when the preceding member of the sentence does not of itself give a complete sense, but depends...
Page 41 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...