MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“The principal stops are the following:  the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon [:], the Period, or Full Stop [.], the Note of Interrogation [?], the Note of Exclamation [!], the Parenthesis [()], and the Dash [—­].”—­Bullions cor. “The modern punctuation in Latin is the same as in English.  The chief marks employed are the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon [:], the Period [.], the Note of Interrogation [?], the Note of Exclamation (!), the Parenthesis [()], and the Dash [—­].”—­Id.

“Plato reproving a young man for playing at some childish game, ’You chide me,’ says the youth, ‘for a trifling fault.’  ‘Custom,’ replied the philosopher, ‘is no trifle.’  ‘And,’ adds Montaigne, ’he was in the right; for our vices begin in infancy.’”—­Home cor.

“A merchant at sea asked the skipper what death his father died.  ’My father,’ says the skipper, ’my grandfather, and my great-grandfather, were all drowned.’  ‘Well,’ replies the merchant, ’and are not you afraid of being drowned too?’”—­Id.

“The use of inverted commas derives from France, where one Guillemet was the author of them; [and,] as an acknowledgement for the improvement, his countrymen call them after his name, GUILLEMETS.”—­Hist. cor.

“This, however, is seldom if ever done, unless the word following the possessive begins with s; thus, we do not say, ‘the prince’ feather;’ but, ‘the prince’s feather.’”—­Bullions cor. “And this phrase must mean, ‘the feather of the prince;’ but ‘prince’s-feather,’ written as one word, [and with both apostrophe and hyphen,] is the name of a plant, a species of amaranth.”—­G.  Brown.  “Boethius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honours his country could bestow.”—­Ingersoll cor.; also L.  Murray.

“When an example, a quotation, or a speech, is introduced, it is separated from the rest of the sentence either by a comma or by a colon; as, ’The Scriptures give us an amiable representation of the Deity, in these words:  God is love.’”—­Hiley cor. “Either the colon or the comma may be used, [according to the nature of the case,] when an example, a quotation, or a speech, is introduced; as, ’Always remember this ancient maxim:  Know thyself.’—­’The Scriptures give us an amiable representation of the Deity, in these words:  God is love.’”—­Bullions cor.

“The first word of a quotation introduced after a colon, or of any sentence quoted in a direct form, must begin with a capital:  as, ’Always remember this ancient maxim:  Know thyself.’—­’Our great lawgiver says, Take up thy cross daily, and follow me.’”—­Bullions and Lennie cor.; also L.  Murray; also Weld.  See Luke, ix, 23.