EXAMPLES.
“When the celebrated Chesterfield was asked by a Parisian lady, ‘Why, my Lord, does England still retain Christianity?’ ‘Madame,’ he replied, with that mixture of repartee and philosophy which met the case he was dealing with, ‘Madame, because, as yet, we have been able to find nothing better.’”
Fielding somewhere says, “A good face is a letter of recommendation.”
REMARKS.
1. When a quotation is introduced by that, it should not commence with a capital; as, Napoleon banished Madame de Stael because he said that “she carried a quiver of arrows that could hit a man if he were seated on a rainbow.”
2. When only a part of a sentence is quoted, a small letter should be used; as, “For what satisfaction hath a man, that he shall ‘lie down with kings and emperors in death,’ who in his lifetime never greatly coveted the society of such bedfellows?”—Lamb.
3. Sometimes a single word comprises the entire saying of another. When this is so, it should commence with a capital; as, “He shouted, ‘Victory.’”
4. When examples are given as illustrations of some general principle, they naturally follow the same rule as quotations. If an entire sentence is given as an example, it should commence with a capital. When disconnected words are given, small letters may be used, unless the words themselves require capitals.
Rule XII. Resolutions.—In writing resolutions, the word immediately following Resolved, should commence with a capital.
EXAMPLE.