A64677:901
The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings,…
The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings, and graces for the bringing up and well grounding children and elder persons in the Protestant religion by the Bishop Usher. Also a catalogue of all the English words beginning with one syllable, and proceeding by degrees to eight ... : to which is added an historical account of several plots and remarkable passages from Queen Elizabeth to this present time ... by Moses Lane.
London: printed for Langly Curtiss, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. A Comma is the most frequent Point, and of least Force; marked thus,
Example. But when the Husbandmen saw the Son, they said among themselves, this is the Heir, come let us kill him, &c.
Example. But when the Husbandmen saw the Son, they said among them•elves, this is the Heir, come let us kill him, &c.
2. A Semicolon is a Pause longer than a Comma, being a Point with a Comma under it;
Example. As he that giveth to the Poor shall not lack;