Elegant extracts : or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry . markedwith a Period. In all cafes, the proportion of the feve-ral points in refpec~t to one another is ratherto be regarded, than their fuppofed pre-cife quantity, or proper office, when takenfeparately. Befides the points which mark the paufesin difcourfe, there are others which denotea. different modulation of the voice in cor-refpondence with the fenfe. Thefe are 7 ^s rj * C marked I * The Interrogation pointThe Exclamation
Elegant extracts : or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry . markedwith a Period. In all cafes, the proportion of the feve-ral points in refpec~t to one another is ratherto be regarded, than their fuppofed pre-cife quantity, or proper office, when takenfeparately. Befides the points which mark the paufesin difcourfe, there are others which denotea. different modulation of the voice in cor-refpondence with the fenfe. Thefe are 7 ^s rj * C marked I * The Interrogation pointThe Exclamation pointThe Parenthefis, The Interrogation and ExclamationPoints are fufficiently explained by theirnames: they are indeterminate as to theirquantity or time, and may be equivalentin that refpect to a Semicolon, a Colon, ora Period, as the fenfe requires. Theymark an elevation of the voice. The Parenthefis inclofes in the body ofa fentence a member inferted into it, whichis neither neceffary to the fenfe, nor at allaffects the conftru&ion. It marks a mo-derate depreffion of the voice, with a paufegreater than a Comma. Lo<wtb, END OP THl SECOND BOOKj ELEGANT. v x ^ X, /C ^N ^-\ <^V--VV/-N /^PV^
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