Punctuation and Letter-writing: Containing, Also, the Rules for the Use of Capital Letters...Raub & Company, 1887 - 96 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abbreviation ACCEPTANCES AND REGRETS ALBERT apposition begin with capital business letters capital letter Charles W Chestnut St colon comma complimentary close compound connected consists curves Dear Friend Dear Sir dependent clause door-number enclose envelope exclamation point EXERCISE expression following where necessary formal heading Henry Henry W honor hyphen indicate interrogation point introduced italics JAMES MCCOSH kind invitation letter of introduction LETTER-WRITING Letters of Courtesy Letters of friendship LL.D marks of parenthesis married ladies Mary Messrs Miss MODEL Mors Normal School Note 2.-When obedient servant omitted paragraph parenthetical period person addressed Philadelphia placed post-office preceding prominent pronunciation proper name Punctuate the following question quotation marks RAUB Remark respectfully Retail Price RULE salutation Samuel Samuel Adams semicolon sentence Sentences.-A separated by commas signature Smith studious superscription Supt syllables Teacher thee thou three lines tion title-page truly usually verb William Willie Smith words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 26 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Seite 40 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Seite 28 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song...
Seite 32 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Seite 28 - I think, The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost A drop of Grecian blood : The end crowns all ; And that old common arbitrator, time, Will one day end it.
Seite 23 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Seite 23 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not...
Seite 38 - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Seite 37 - We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet, when produced, is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided.
Seite 37 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.