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... Exclamation . 1. Before a slight change of structure . 2. After a portion of a sentence abruptly broken off . 3. Pause of unusual construc- 3 . tion and significance ; or- the dash .... After an abrupt termination of thought . 4. Before ...
... Exclamation . 1. Before a slight change of structure . 2. After a portion of a sentence abruptly broken off . 3. Pause of unusual construc- 3 . tion and significance ; or- the dash .... After an abrupt termination of thought . 4. Before ...
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... exclamation , marked thus : { ? These , accurately speaking , are not pauses , but the representa- tives of the pauses , already considered , which mark divisions of sense ; and this representative character it is very important to re ...
... exclamation , marked thus : { ? These , accurately speaking , are not pauses , but the representa- tives of the pauses , already considered , which mark divisions of sense ; and this representative character it is very important to re ...
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... in fact it is an exclamation : no answer being required , expected or even thought of : e . g . 1. The earth must be labored before it will give its increase ; and when it is forced into its several products , INTERROGATION . 51.
... in fact it is an exclamation : no answer being required , expected or even thought of : e . g . 1. The earth must be labored before it will give its increase ; and when it is forced into its several products , INTERROGATION . 51.
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... exclamation denotes that a sentence , or part of a sen- tence , before it , contains an expression of some one of ... exclamation point represents the comma : in the second , the semicolon and period : in the third , the colon and period ...
... exclamation denotes that a sentence , or part of a sen- tence , before it , contains an expression of some one of ... exclamation point represents the comma : in the second , the semicolon and period : in the third , the colon and period ...
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... exclamation point . As no part of a simple sentence can separately make perfect sense ; in other words , inasmuch as simple sentences make , at every point , except at the end , imperfect sense ; the comma is the only intermediate pause ...
... exclamation point . As no part of a simple sentence can separately make perfect sense ; in other words , inasmuch as simple sentences make , at every point , except at the end , imperfect sense ; the comma is the only intermediate pause ...
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Page 169 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 346 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 161 - Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. Have mercy, Jesu! — Soft! I did but dream. 0 coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
Page 186 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 258 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 139 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 122 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 269 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 189 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Page 181 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...