 | John Best Davidson - 1839 - 208 páginas
...to give us some rule relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch, the quarter-inch...most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle short, the ' dash ' is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose.... | |
 | F. Francillon - 1842 - 118 páginas
...parenthesis points. Cobbett's opinion of the dash is expressed in his concise and pithy language :40 "the dash is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose." Cobbett would dismiss the dash altogether and he is wrong : others would use it for half a dozen different... | |
 | John Graham (compositor.) - 1848 - 94 páginas
...relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three quarter-inch, the half-inch, the quarter-inch: these would be something...of points, and it can answer no other purpose.— COBBETT. The dash is used after titles of subjects, when several are classed together, as in the argument... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - 230 páginas
...relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different eases, The inch, the three quarterinch, the half-inch, the quarter-inch : these would be something...cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it ean answer no other purpose. A dash is very often put, in crowded print, in order to save the room... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 612 páginas
...to give us some rule relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch the quarterinch...for a young grammarian to handle. In short, " the da,ch " is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose.— A... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1883 - 310 páginas
...to give us some rule relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch the quarterinch...the dash" without measure, must be a most perilous thingfor a young grammarian to handle. In short, "the dash" is a cover for ignorance as to the use... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 616 páginas
...to give us some rule relative to its different longitudinal dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch the quarterinch...these would be something determinate ; but, " the das//," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1884 - 218 páginas
...dimensions in different cases. The inch, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch, the guarter-inch : these would be something determinate ; but, " the...young grammarian to handle. In short, " the dash " is B cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose. A dash is very often... | |
 | Mathew Wilson - 1884 - 294 páginas
...sometimes used before a quotation, where it was formerly the custom to insert a colon ; as Cobbett says—" In short, the dash is a cover for ignorance as to the use ot points, and it can answer no other purpose." Exercise I . t'iml in the Reading-book ten examples... | |
 | John P. Murphy - 1890 - 280 páginas
...Quotation points are also used when the exact words of a book are transcribed ; as Cobbett says : " The dash is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points." 36. A quotation within a quotation or an example, is usually marked with single points ; as, "Patrick... | |
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The tncA, the three-quarter-inch, the half-inch, the quarter-inch : these would be something determinate ; but, the ' dash,' without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, the 'dash' is a cover for ignorance... 
