He says: "There is no property of any description, if it be rightfully held, which had not its foundation in labour."
He frequently calls them "absurd," and applies to them such epithets as "jargon," "fustian," and the like.
The last sentence might be written without inverted commas. By using them we call special attention to the fact that these were the words actually employed, and are not simply words like them.
So, in a passage quoted in the indirect form, if part be quoted exactly, it is placed within inverted commas.
The Duke of Portland warmly approved of the work, but justly remarked that the king was not "so absolute a thing of straw" as he was represented in it.
Words referred to simply as words are either placed within inverted commas or put in italics.
The word "friendship," in the sense we commonly mean by it, is not so much as named in the New Testament.
LIV. When a quotation is interrupted, as in the report of a conversation, each continuous part of the quotation is enclosed within inverted commas.
"Pardon me, madam," answered Henry, "it was of one Silas Morton I spoke."
LV. When a quotation occurs in another quotation, single inverted commas are used for the former.