A Punctuation Primer: With Notes on the Preparation of ManuscriptAmerican Book Company, 1908 - 103 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
722 Central Street adjective AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY apostrophe beginning bibliography business letter catalogues Caucasian race clause series comma compound word Concord grapes consonant coördinate correction Deacon White dear derived from proper educated in American English with equal essays Examples family where German formal note friendly letter Give ten words given Gordon's kind invitation grammatical hath idea indentions indorsement James Gordon's kind July white literature LONG VOWEL Madame de Sévigné Mannville manuscript margin Miss Olive Burton modified Nathaniel Hawthorne Non-restrictive October the fifth Oxford shoes parable paragraph faulty participle Peabody Institute Library phrase places plural PRIMER proper name PUNCT punctuation quotation marks reference Robert Louis Stevenson rule semicolon sentence faulty September twenty-eighth short Shortridge High School sound spoken exclusively student syllable T.C. Coherence tence theme faulty theme paper tion topics UNACCENTED VOWEL unto usually vowel Wellesley College word division written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 35 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart; this is he which received seed by the way side.
Página 36 - He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one...
Página 37 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe -which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Página 53 - My dear dear Friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear dear Sister! and this prayer I make Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lend From joy to joy...
Página 34 - For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Página 34 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Página 51 - Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Página 32 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Página 36 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Página 36 - Another parable spake he unto them : The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.