My communication was offered and refused.
My communication was offered, and refused on account of its length.
OBS. 21. We recently met with this last sentence, pointed as follows: “My communication was offered and refused, on account of its length”; but it is not easy to see why the length of a communication should be assigned as the reason for having offered it.
“Every favor a man receives in some measure sinks him below his dignity.”—Goldsmith.
OBS. 22. A comma should have been placed after receives.
24. No comma is put between two words or phrases in apposition, following the verbs think, name, make, consider, and others of a similar meaning.
They made him their ruler.
They called him captain.
They saluted him king.
I esteem you my friend.