 Sentence; For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue without a stay to speake long together; it was thought necessarie, as well for the speakers ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this meanes,...  Lectures, Sketches, and Poetical Pieces - Page 96by William Graham - 1873 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...is thorough the body ; and consisteth in the breathing, when we pronounce any sentence. For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue...without a stay to speak long together ; it was thought necesary as well for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent... | |
 | Thomas Fair Husband, Margaret Fair Anderson Husband - English language - 1905 - 158 pages
...is entitled Of the Distinction of Sentences. These are his views : — Our breath is so short that, as well for the speaker's ease as for the plainer deliverance of things spoken, means have been invented whereby men might pause a pretty while and yet the speech be... | |
 | English Association - Electronic journals - 1921 - 160 pages
...symbols. In a preliminary paragraph he explains the origin of these ' Distinctions ' thus : ' For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue...speak long together ; it was thought necessary as well as for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this means,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of English - English literature - 1925 - 252 pages
...pointed with Semicolon." 2s Ben Jonson, The English Grammar (written before 1637) : " For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue...for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, 22 P. 135. 2s Pp. 58, 59. to invent this means, whereby men pausing a pretty while, the whole speech... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of English - English literature - 1925 - 260 pages
...Semicolon."" . . Ben Jonaon, The English Grammar (written before 1637) : " For, whereas our breath • by nature so short, that we cannot continue without...to speak long together; it was thought necessary as wdl for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, » P. 135. to invent... | |
 | Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1927 - 664 pages
..."dispersed through every member thereof, as the blood is through the body" is the breathing; but "whereas our breath is by nature so short that we cannot continue...stay to speak long together, it was thought necessary for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this means (of... | |
 | Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1927 - 670 pages
...nature so short that we cannot continue without a stay to speak long together, it was thought necessary for the speaker's ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this means (of punctuation)." A comma he calls a mean breathing; a semicolon, a somewhat longer breath; a colon... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English language - 1928 - 112 pages
...whole, dispersed thorow every member thereof, as the bloud is thorow the body; Sentence; For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue without a stay to speake long together; it was thought necessarie, as well for the speakers ease, as for the plainer... | |
 | Judith Woolf - Academic writing - 2005 - 188 pages
...bloud is thorow the body; and consisteth in the breathing, when we pronounce any Sentence; For, whereas our breath is by nature so short, that we cannot continue without a stay to speake long together; it was thought necessarie, as well for the speakers ease, as for the plainer... | |
 | Judith Woolf - Education - 2005 - 192 pages
...continue without a stay to speake long together; it was thought necessarie, as well for the speakers ease, as for the plainer deliverance of the things spoken, to invent this meanes, whereby men pausing a pretty while, the whole speech might never the worse be understood.'''... | |
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