The Printer's Manual: A Practical Guide for Compositors and PressmenCincinnati type-foundry, 1872 - 226 pages |
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Page 11 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 12 - The DASH The Dash, though often used improperly by hasty and incoherent writers, may be introduced with propriety, where the sentence breaks off abruptly ; where a significant pause is required ; or where there is an unexpected turn in the sentiment : as, ' If thou art he, so much respected once — but, oh! how fallen! how degraded!
Page 10 - Philosophers assert, that nature is unlimited in her operations ; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve ; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.
Page 12 - Recreations, though they may be of an innocent kind, require steady government, to, keep them within a due and limited province. But such as are of an irregular and vicious nature, are not to be governed, but to be banished from every well-regulated mind.
Page 9 - If the Spring put forth no blossoms, in Summer there will be no beauty, and in Autumn. no fruit. So if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Page 9 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
Page 11 - As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive it moving; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist of such minute steps, are only perceivable by the distance gone over.
Page 16 - Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, begin, beginning; run, running; put, putting; shop, shopping; prefer, preferred.
Page 6 - But if the parts connected are not short, a comma may be inserted, though the conjunction is expressed : as, " Romances may be said to be miserable rhapsodies, or dangerous incentives to evil ;" " Intemperance destroys the strength of our bodies, and the vigour of our minds.