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... become not uncommon , that the dash under the name of break was then coming into use , and that even now the para- thesis is seldom used , and under that name is hardly known . I come also to this conclusion , yet without speaking very ...
... become not uncommon , that the dash under the name of break was then coming into use , and that even now the para- thesis is seldom used , and under that name is hardly known . I come also to this conclusion , yet without speaking very ...
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... become obsolete , and the word is 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 ...
... become obsolete , and the word is 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 ...
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... become colons , and form only one period . The Definition of colons in English composition may be set out as follows ; -when a simple period has in it , no words leading the reader to expect another member , and another simple period ...
... become colons , and form only one period . The Definition of colons in English composition may be set out as follows ; -when a simple period has in it , no words leading the reader to expect another member , and another simple period ...
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... become a fashion among some writers , to subjoin points of admiration to sentences , which contain nothing but simple affirmations or propositions ; as if , by an affected method of pointing , they would transform them in the reader's ...
... become a fashion among some writers , to subjoin points of admiration to sentences , which contain nothing but simple affirmations or propositions ; as if , by an affected method of pointing , they would transform them in the reader's ...
Strona 39
... become a well known , if not a well understood point . It appears to me that , besides marking epigrammatical and peculiar turns of expression , the dash may be lawfully used in conjunction with the other points , to qualify , or ...
... become a well known , if not a well understood point . It appears to me that , besides marking epigrammatical and peculiar turns of expression , the dash may be lawfully used in conjunction with the other points , to qualify , or ...
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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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