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... capital , and it will require no little skill and patience to decipher the meaning . A reader not apprised of what had been done would be apt to mistake the sentence for something in a foreign language . Here is an example , first in ...
... capital , and it will require no little skill and patience to decipher the meaning . A reader not apprised of what had been done would be apt to mistake the sentence for something in a foreign language . Here is an example , first in ...
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... Capital is from the Latin caput , a head . The letters of the word or words forming the caput , heading , or title of a discourse , are called head - letters , or capitals . NOTE 4. The capital letters were those first invented , and ...
... Capital is from the Latin caput , a head . The letters of the word or words forming the caput , heading , or title of a discourse , are called head - letters , or capitals . NOTE 4. The capital letters were those first invented , and ...
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... capital . ] I. Excellence in conversation depends in a great measure on the attainments which one has made if therefore education is neglected conversation will become trifling if perverted cor- rupting . 2. The laws of Phoroneus were ...
... capital . ] I. Excellence in conversation depends in a great measure on the attainments which one has made if therefore education is neglected conversation will become trifling if perverted cor- rupting . 2. The laws of Phoroneus were ...
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... capital after it . When there is , in that particular construction , but one interrogation point , it is always equivalent to a period , and should be followed by a capital . When , however , there is a succession of questions ...
... capital after it . When there is , in that particular construction , but one interrogation point , it is always equivalent to a period , and should be followed by a capital . When , however , there is a succession of questions ...
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... capital . RULE 2. The First Word in a Book , & c . — The first word of every - book , tract , essay , & c . , and of every chapter or section , also of every letter , note , or writing of any kind , should begin with a capital . RULE 3 ...
... capital . RULE 2. The First Word in a Book , & c . — The first word of every - book , tract , essay , & c . , and of every chapter or section , also of every letter , note , or writing of any kind , should begin with a capital . RULE 3 ...
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Page 248 - I never more shall see my own, my native land: Take a message, and a token, to some distant friends of mine, For I was born at Bingen, — at Bingen on the Rhine.
Page 191 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 250 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 248 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 175 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 88 - Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 52 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ...
Page 160 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 193 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!