"He cried 'Cause every man to go out from me.'" "'Almet' said he 'remember what thou hast seen.'" "I answered 'Mock not thy servant who is but a worm before thee.'"
EXERCISE IV.—PUNCTUATION.
I. THE SEMICOLON.—Copy the following sentences, and insert the Comma and the SEMICOLON where they are requisite.
EXAMPLES UNDER RULE I.—OF COMPOUND MEMBERS.
"'Man is weak' answered his companion 'knowledge is more than equivalent to force.'" "To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past for all judgement is compartive [sic—KTH] and of the future nothing can be known." "'Contentment is natural wealth' says Socrates to which I shall add 'luxury is artificial poverty.'"
"Converse and love mankind might strongly draw
When love was liberty and nature law."
UNDER RULE II.—OF SIMPLE MEMBERS.
"Be wise to-day 'tis madness to defer." "The present all their care the future his." "Wit makes an enterpriser sense a man." "Ask thought for joy grow rich and hoard within." "Song soothes our pains and age has pains to soothe." "Here an enemy encounters there a rival supplants him." "Our answer to their reasons is; 'No' to their scoffs nothing."
"Here subterranean works and cities see
There towns aerial on the waving tree."