This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...the employment of commas to mark the minute pauses by which correct speakers seek to avoid giving 'an uncertain sound, '8 a comma might, as has frequently been done, be inserted before the "his" to distinguish between the two predicates--to separate "Ulysses" and "his bow," "Telemachus" and "his years," "Didius" and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...the employment of commas to mark the minute pauses by which correct speakers seek to avoid giving 'an uncertain sound, '8 a comma might, as has frequently been done, be inserted before the "his" to distinguish between the two predicates--to separate "Ulysses" and "his bow," "Telemachus" and "his years," "Didius" and "his devising." When the enunciation of the aspirate was gradually abandoned, the coalition between the two predicates, becoming more close, the dissociating comma was abandoned, or rather it was raised to the exalted position of a mark of elision. The importance of the mixed possessive augment appears to have been duly appreciated in Scotland by a kindred, though, not unfrequently, a hostile nation. "The haill comons of 1 English Past and Present, p. 116, by Dr. Trench. a Handbook of the English Language, 26, 241, by Dr. Latham. 3 Guardian, No. 98. 4 Now printed " Ulysses's bow." 5 Odyssey, Bk. xi. l. 84. Now printed "Telemachus's." 'Tristram Shandy, chap. vii. 8 There is no ground for supposing that the demon who dictated the ambiguous response--Ibis redibis nunqnam per bellum peribis, was gifted with a foreknowledge of the important sanction to be derived from a decanal, if not a metropolitical inhibition. Scotland that hav red,1 or understanding, ever dailie speaking and exponeing of Thomas Rymer hes prophesies whilk were prophesied in auld times."2 Mr. Addison observes that the same single letter s "on many occasions, does the office of a whole word, and represents the 'his' and 'her' of our forefathers."3 It would, perhaps, have been more correct to say, that the single letter s on many occasions, presents the "his" of our...
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