Where fortune smiles.
Roe, Richard. Doe, John.
OBS. 8. The exceptions to this rule are numerous. If the first and last words of a passage are related (for him the summer wind murmured); if the inverted phrase be brief, and can be read in close connection with what follows (in youth we have little sympathy with the misfortunes of age); or if the principal clause is itself inverted (In the center of the common rises a noble monument),—the comma is usually omitted.
OBS. 9. In long lists of proper names, as Directories, etc., it is usual to omit the comma, although the names are transposed, and to print thus:
- Smith James W.
- Thomson Theophilus.
16. When the principal sentence is broken to receive an incidental or parenthetic expression, a comma is placed at the break, and another at the end of the inserted clause.
Rulers and magistrates should attempt to operate on the minds of their respective subjects, if possible, by reward rather than punishment.
Some writers, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried.
It is known to every physician, that, whatever lazy people may say to the contrary, early rising tends to longevity.
Go, then, where, wrapt in fear and gloom,