About the Book
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. 1899. Excerpt: ... One's self, 162. Only, position of, 134. On to, 182. Oral, 179. Order, in historical narrative, 12-14. Other than, 182. Outline, sample for brief, 208. Owing to, 139, footnote. P. Paragraph, defined, 7-8; the Historical, 7-36; the Fic-titious, 37-66; the Descrip-tive, 67-95; the Logical, 96-157. Paragraphs, chain of, 200-218; division of narrative subject into, 206-208; division of de-scriptive subjects into, 209-210; to criticise those of two versions of Gettysburg ad-dress, 211-213; division of expository subject into, 215-216. Parenthesis, how punctuated, 79-82; marks of, 81; intensi-fied by dash, 191. Part, 163. Participle, nature of, 138; il-logical reference of, 138-139; not to be confused with verbal, 140-141; value of, in reducing sentences to modi-fiers, 155. Particular, reasoning from, to general, 110-125. Party, 162. Patriot, The Definition of, theme-subject, 214. Period, its work cannot be done by comma, 25; nor by dash, 192. Periods, seldom to be placed thirty words apart, 18. Person, 162. Persons, description of, 67-68. Petition, A, theme-subject, 189. Phrase defined, 60-61; adjec-tive, 61. Picturesque landscape, 82-83. Plural, possessive of, 91; of single letters and words, 196, footnote. Plurality, 161. Popes, Two, theme-subject, 77. Portion, 163. Possessive with apostrophe, 90-91. "Post hoc, propter hoc," 123-125. Posted, 180. Practical, 180. Practicable, 180. Preceding, 178. Predominant, 163. Principal statement, 19, 61; see also under Sentence. Prominent, 163. Pronoun, relative, 61; illogical reference of personal, 136-137. Proposition, 19. Propose, 169. Proved, 169. Proven, 169. Punctuation, of propositions, 23-27, 38-48; excessive, 73-76; parentheses, 79-82; words in a series, 83-85; relative clauses, 87-89; quotations, 91-93; enumera...
