Excerpt from Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers With the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the Voice These characters, when judiciously employed, fix the meaning and give precision to the signification of sentences, which, in a written form, would be ambiguous or indefinite without them. Thus, I said that he is dishonest it is true and I am sorry for it. Now the meaning of this sentence can be ascertained only by a correct punctuation. If it be punctuated as follows: I said that he is dishonest, it is true, and I am sorry for it the meaning will be, that it is true that I said he was dishonest, and I am sorry that I said so. But if it be punctuated thus, I said that he was dishonest; it is true; and I am sorry for it the meaning will be, I said that he was dishonest; it is true that he was dishonest, and I am sorry that he was so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.