A Drill Book in EnglishAllyn and Bacon, 1891 - 106 pages |
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... quotation should begin with a capital letter . 2. The pronoun I and the interjection O should always be written in capitals . 3. Names and titles of the Deity , of Jesus Christ , and of the Trinity should begin with capitals . 4 ...
... quotation should begin with a capital letter . 2. The pronoun I and the interjection O should always be written in capitals . 3. Names and titles of the Deity , of Jesus Christ , and of the Trinity should begin with capitals . 4 ...
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... quotations , and quotations introduced by as follows , these words , etc. , are preceded by a colon ; as , Mr. Smith arose and spoke as follows : " I am happy to count my- self a member of this company . " - EXCEPTION 4. Where but , and ...
... quotations , and quotations introduced by as follows , these words , etc. , are preceded by a colon ; as , Mr. Smith arose and spoke as follows : " I am happy to count my- self a member of this company . " - EXCEPTION 4. Where but , and ...
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... constructed that a greater break is required , the dash should be used ; as , If God be with us , who can be against us ? If his deeds are villainous , what say you to that ? 26. Marks of quotation [ " " ] are used PUNCTUATION . 23.
... constructed that a greater break is required , the dash should be used ; as , If God be with us , who can be against us ? If his deeds are villainous , what say you to that ? 26. Marks of quotation [ " " ] are used PUNCTUATION . 23.
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... quotation mark ; but the interrogation or the exclamation point , the colon , or the semicolon should come before or after the quotation mark according as it is a part of the quotation or not . When one quotation occurs within another ...
... quotation mark ; but the interrogation or the exclamation point , the colon , or the semicolon should come before or after the quotation mark according as it is a part of the quotation or not . When one quotation occurs within another ...
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Page 33 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, , — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 30 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 35 - ... made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual...
Page 16 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 34 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his...
Page 16 - Who sees with equal eye , as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst , and now a world.
Page 31 - ... The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 34 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 33 - The High Court of Parliament was to sit, according to forms handed down from the days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely house of Oude.
Page 16 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.