[Footnote 12: As many of Polonius' aphorismic utterances as are given in the 1st Quarto have there inverted commas; but whether intended as gleanings from books or as fruits of experience, the light they throw on the character of him who speaks them is the same: they show it altogether selfish.

And commas used for a similar purpose belong to the same family as notes at the foot of the page and parenthesis in the middle of the text; nay, all three differ only in degree.

The following lines are not indeed placed within inverted commas, but the pronoun "I" is retained, and they are apparently intended for something passing in the young suitor's mind: "O!

And I'm going to tell the printer that I've left it for him to make the spelling right, and put in all those tiresome little commas and periods and question marks that everybody seems to make such a fuss about.

The passage between commas is omitted in the representation, but we know not why.

Of these ten, three are for punctuation,the substitution of a period for a semicolon, the introduction of three commas, and the substitution of an interrogation point for a comma; the punctuation being of not the slightest service in either case, as the sense is as clear as noonday in all.

"Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and immediately following one another, are also separated by commas."

"Two or more adverbs immediately succeeding each other, must be separated by commas.

"Several verbs in the infinitive mood, having a common dependence, and succeeding one another, are also divided by commas.

"When two or more verbs have the same nominative, and immediately follow one another, or two or more adverbs immediately succeed one another, they must be separated by commas.

Therefore, two other commas should be here inserted; thus, "But he found me, not singing at my work, ruddy with health, vivid with cheerfulness; but pale," &c.Dr. Johnson.]

Therefore, two commas should be here inserted; thus, "The chancellor, being attached to the king, secured his crown.

"There are frequent occasions for commas.

In type, they are inverted commas at the beginning, apostrophes at the conclusion.

On the page above referred to, Dr. Bullions, in copying from Lennie's syntactical exercises a dozen consecutive lines, has omitted nine needful commas, which Lennie had been careful to insert!

[Footnote 117: The lines within inverted commas, are Mr. Landor's, without alteration.

In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?

It follows that in trying to identify all the persons to whom he may or may not have been introduced in the previous pages, and all the phrases in inverted commas he has certainly seen somewhere else sometime, the truly diligent reader will be kept faithfully at his taska pleasant one possibly, but just a thought too much like hard work to be quite entertaining in a novel.

With responsibilitynot merely for commas and niceties and literary kickshaws, but in its old sensedisappears also a portion of the interest of editorial labour.

If the training has failed to give the pupil this power, it will be of little advantage to him to have mastered some of the minor matters of technique, or to have learned how to improve his phrasing, polish his sentences, and distribute his commas.

Absolute trueness is that adopted by theorists, who divide the gamut into five notes and two semi-notes; the note into nine commas, or shades of tone; the chromatic semi-tone into five, and the diatonic semi-tone into four.

The note is, therefore, practically divided into two semitones of four commas and a half.

"Passional trueness," said Delsarte, "consists in giving each semitone three, four, five, six, or even seven commas, according to its tendency."

Footnotes: {7} In the book the opening double-quotes are double commas.

" The authentic Latin copy of the grant to Sir William Alexander, as communicated officially by the British Government, contains no commas, and would read as follows: "Omnes et singulas terras continentis ac insulas situatas et jacentes in America intra caput seu promontorium communiter Cap de Sable appellat.