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A. G. GARDINER abbreviations adjective adverb Atlantic books Atlantic usage avoid called capitalized changed Cobbett colon comma common Compositors and Readers compound conjunction connection construction coördination copy correct course dash defining clause Dictionary distinction divided division doubt E. F. BENSON editor ellipsis EMERSON error expression fact frequently galley proof grammar Hart's Rules Horace Hart hyphen indicate infra italicized italics JAMES King's English less letters logical magazine Mary Fitton meaning MEREDITH Messrs Modern Punctuation never non-defining noun numerous omission omitted paragraph parenthetical clause passage perhaps period person plural practice preposition Press printed printers pronoun proof proof-reader properly quasi-quotation question mark quotation marks referred relative clause Rules for Compositors RUSKIN seems semicolon sense sentence sometimes spacing spelling split infinitive stop style suggest Summey syllable tence thing thought tion tive verb VERNON KELLOGG word or phrase writer
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Page 94 - ... is neither to be intimidated nor bullied, nor put down ; and that any attempt to do either the one or the other...
Page 263 - ... allegiance. Where shall we find language innocent enough, how shall we make the spotless purity of our intentions evident enough, to enable us to say to the political Englishman that the British constitution itself, which, seen from the practical side, looks such a magnificent organ of progress and virtue, seen from the speculative side, — with its compromises, its love of facts, its horror of theory, its studied avoidance of clear thoughts, — that, seen from this side, our august constitution...
Page 137 - Wordsworth cared little for books, and disparaged Goethe. I admire Wordsworth, as he is, so much that I cannot wish him different ; and it is vain, no doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different; but surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth an even greater poet than he is...
Page 130 - The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda— these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
Page 97 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 176 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 9 - I press this matter with such earnestness, because a knowledge of grammar is the foundation of all literature; and because without this knowledge opportunities for writing and speaking are only occasions for men to display their unfitness to write and speak. How many false pretenders to erudition have I exposed to shame merely by my knowledge of grammar! How many of the insolent and ignorant great and powerful have I pulled down and made little and despicable!
Page 138 - State are repudiated, — where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of their social life, — where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman, — where the arts, such as they have, are all imported, having no indigenous life, — where the laborer is not secured in the earnings of his own hands, — where suffrage is not...
Page 76 - That is what I call living by ideas ; when one side of a question has long had your earnest support, when all your feelings are engaged, when you hear all round you no language but one, when your party talks this language like a steam-engine and can imagine no other, — still to be able to think, still to be irresistibly carried, if so it be, by the current of thought to the opposite side of the question, and, like Balaam, to be unable to speak anything but what the Lord has put in your mouth.
Page 139 - This is wild work indeed ! Who is to know what is intended by the use of these dashes ? Those who have thought proper, like Mr. Lindley Murray, to place the dash amongst the grammatical points, ought to give us some rule relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch the quarterinch ; these would be something determinate ; but, " the dash," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle.