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When an author represents a person as speaking, the language of that
person should be designated by a quotation; as, At my coming in, he
said, "You and the physician are come too late." A quotation contained
within another, should be distinguished by two _single_ commas; as,
"Always remember this ancient maxim 'Know thyself.'"
DIRECTIONS FOR USING CAPITAL LETTERS.
It is proper to begin with a capital,
1. The first word of every sentence.
2. Proper names, the appellations of the Deity, &c.; as, "James,
Cincinnati, the Andes, Huron;" "God, Jehovah, the Almighty the Supreme
Being, Providence, the Holy Spirit."
3. Adjectives derived from proper names, the titles of books, nouns
which are used as the subject of discourse, the pronoun _I_ and the
interjection _O_, and every line in poetry; as, "American, Grecian,
English, French; Irving's Sketch Book, Percival's Poems; I write; Hear,
O earth!"
APPENDIX.
VERSIFICATION.
POETRY is the language of passion, or of enlivened imagination.
VERSIFICATION, in English, is the harmonious arrangement of a particular
number and variety of accented and unaccented syllables, according to
particular laws.
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