Examples: "Raptures, transports, and extafies are the rewards which they confer: fighs and tears, prayers and broken hearts, are the offerings which are paid to them." Addison, ibid. "Gods partial, changeful, paffionate, unjust; Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or luft.” Pope. "What is fweeter than honey? and what is ftronger than a lion ?" A circumftance of importance, though, no more than an Imperfect Phrafe, may be fet off with a Comma on each fide, to give it greater force and diftinction. Example: "The principle may be defective or faulty, but the confequences it produces are fo good, that, for the benefit of mankind, it ought not to be extinguished." Addifon, ibid. A Member of a Sentence, whether Simple or Compounded, that requires a greater pause than a Comma, yet does not of itself make a complete Sentence, but is followed by fomething closely depending on it, may be diftinguished by a Semicolon. Example: "But as this paffion for admiration, when it works according to reason, improves the beautiful part of our fpecies in every thing that is laudable; fo nothing is more deftructive to them, when it is governed by vanity and folly." Addifon, ibid. Here the whole Sentence is divided into two parts by the Semicolon; each of which parts is a Compounded Member, divided into its Simple Members by the Comma. A Member of a Sentence, whether Simple or Compounded, which of itself would make a complete Sentence, and fo requires a greater pause than a Semicolon, yet is followed by an additional part making a more full and perfect Senfe, may be diftinguished by a Colon.. Example: "Were all books reduced to their quintef fence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper: there would be fcarce any fuch thing in nature as a folio: the works of an age would be contained on a few fhelves: not to mention millions of volumes, that would be utterly annihilated." Addifon, Spect. N° 124. Here Here the whole Sentence is divided into four parts by Colons: the first and laft of which are Compounded Members, each divided by a Comma; the second and third are Simple Members. When a Semicolon has preceded, and a greater paufe is ftill neceffary; a Colon may be employed, though the Sentence be incomplete. The Colon is alfo commonly used, when an Example, or a Speech, is introduced. When a Sentence is fo far perfectly finished, as not to be connected in conftruction with the following Sentence, it is marked with a Period. In all cafes, the proportion of the feveral Points in respect to one another is rather to be regarded, than their fuppofed precife quantity, or proper office, when taken separately. Befide the Points which mark the pauses in difcourfe, there are others which denote a different modulation of the voice in correfpondence with the fenfe. These are The Interrogation Point, thus marked The Interrogation and Exclamation Points. are fufficiently explained by their names: they are indeterminate as to their quantity or time, and may be equivalent in that refpect to a Semicolon, a Colon, or a Period, as the fenfe requires. They mark an Elevation of the voice. The Parenthefis inclofes in the body of a Sentence a member inferted into it, which is neither neceffary to the Senfe, nor at all affects the Conftruction. It marks a moderate Depreffion of the voice, with a paufe greater than a Comma.. A PRAXIS, I.. A PRAXIS, Or EXAMPLE of Grammatical Refolution. I' N the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæfar, Pontius Pilate being gover nour of Judea, the word of God came unto John, the fon of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 2. And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptifm of repentance for the remiffion of fins.. 3. And the fame John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdlé about his loins; and his meat was locufts and wild honey.. 4. Then faid he to the multitude, that came forth to be baptized of him: O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.. 5. And |