and moon began their course in the skies herbs and plants clothed the ground the air the earth and the waters were stored with their respective inhabitants at last man was made in the image of God"
"In general those parents have most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised"
UNDER RULE II.—OF ALLIED SENTENCES.
"Civil accomplishments frequently give rise to fame but a distinction is to be made between fame and true honour the statesman the orator or the poet may be famous while yet the man himself is far from being honoured"
UNDER RULE III.—OF ABBREVIATIONS.
"Glass was invented in England by Benalt a monk A D 664" "The Roman era U C commenced A C 1753 years" "Here is the Literary Life of S T Coleridge Esq" "PLATO a most illustrious philosopher of antiquity died at Athens 348 B C aged 81 his writings are very valuable his language beautiful and correct and his philosophy sublime"—See Univ. Biog. Dict.
EXERCISE V.—PUNCTUATION.
I. THE DASH.
Copy the following sentences, and insert, in their proper places, the Dash, and such other points as are necessary.
EXAMPLES UNDER RULE I.—OF ABRUPT PAUSES.
"You say famous very often and I don't know exactly what it means a famous uniform famous doings What does famous mean"
"O why famous means Now don't you know what famous means It means It is a word that people say It is the fashion to say it It means it means famous."
UNDER RULE II.—OF EMPHATIC PAUSES.
"But this life is not all there is there is full surely another state abiding us And if there is what is thy prospect O remorseless obdurate Thou shalt hear it would be thy wisdom to think thou now nearest the sound of that trumpet which shall awake the dead Return O yet return to the Father of mercies and live"
"The future pleases Why The present pains
But that's a secret yes which all men know"
II. THE EROTEME.
Copy the following sentences, and insert rightly the Eroteme, or Note of Interrogation, 'and such other points as are necessary.
UNDER RULE I.—OF QUESTIONS DIRECT.
"Does Nature bear a tyrant's breast
Is she the friend of stern control
Wears she the despot's purple vest
Or fetters she the freeborn soul"
"Why should a man whose blood is warm within
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster"
"Who art thou courteous stranger and from whence
Why roam thy steps to this abandon'd dale"
UNDER RULE II.—OF QUESTIONS UNITED.
"Who bid the stork Columbus-like explore
Heav'ns not his own and worlds unknown before
Who calls the council states the certain day
Who forms the phalanx and who points the way"
UNDER RULE III.—OF QUESTIONS INDIRECT.
"They asked me who I was and whither I was going." "St. Paul asked king Agrippa if he believed the prophets? But he did not wait for an answer."
"Ask of thy mother Earth why oaks are made
Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade"
III. THE ECPHONEME.
Copy the following sentences, and insert rightly the Ecphoneme, or Note of Exclamation, and such other points as are necessary.
UNDER RULE I.—OF INTERJECTIONS.
"Oh talk of hypocrisy after this Most consummate of all hypocrites After instructing your chosen official advocate to stand forward with such a defence such an exposition of your motives to dare utter the word hypocrisy and complain of those who charged you with it" Brougham
"Alas how is that rugged heart forlorn"
"Behold the victor vanquish'd by the worm"
"Bliss sublunary Bliss proud words and vain"
UNDER RULE II.—OF INVOCATIONS.
"O Popular Applause what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms"
"More than thy balm O Gilead heals the wound"
