II.  THE COLON.—­Copy the following sentences, and insert the Comma, the Semicolon, and the COLON, where they are requisite.

UNDER RULE I.—­OF ADDITIONAL REMARKS.

“Indulge not desires at the expense of the slightest article of virtue pass once its limits and you fall headlong into vice.”  “Death wounds to cure we fall we rise we reign.”  “Beware of usurpation God is the judge of all.”

   “Bliss!—­there is none but unprecarious bliss
    That is the gem sell all and purchase that.”

UNDER RULE II.—­OF GREATER PAUSES.

“I have the world here before me I will review it at leisure surely happiness is somewhere to be found.”  “A melancholy enthusiast courts persecution and when he cannot obtain it afflicts himself with absurd penances but the holiness of St. Paul consisted in the simplicity of a pious life.”

   “Observe his awful portrait and admire
    Nor stop at wonder imitate and live.”

UNDER RULE III.—­OF INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

“Such is our Lord’s injunction ‘Watch and pray.’” “He died praying for his persecutors ‘Father forgive them they know not what they do.’” “On the old gentleman’s cane was inscribed this motto ‘Festina lente.’”

III.—­THE PERIOD.—­Copy the following sentences, and insert the Comma, the Semicolon, the Colon, and the PERIOD, where they are requisite.

UNDER RULE I.—­OF DISTINCT SENTENCES.

“Then appeared the sea and the dry land the mountains rose and the rivers flowed the sun and moon began their course in the skies herbs and plants clothed the ground the air the earth and the waters were stored with their respective inhabitants at last man was made in the image of God”

“In general those parents have most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised”

UNDER RULE II.—­OF ALLIED SENTENCES.

“Civil accomplishments frequently give rise to fame but a distinction is to be made between fame and true honour the statesman the orator or the poet may be famous while yet the man himself is far from being honoured”

UNDER RULE III.—­OF ABBREVIATIONS.

“Glass was invented in England by Benalt a monk A D 664” “The Roman era U C commenced A C 1753 years” “Here is the Literary Life of S T Coleridge Esq” “PLATO a most illustrious philosopher of antiquity died at Athens 348 B C aged 81 his writings are very valuable his language beautiful and correct and his philosophy sublime”—­See Univ.  Biog.  Dict.

EXERCISE V.—­PUNCTUATION.

I. THE DASH.—­Copy the following sentences, and insert, in their proper places, the DASH, and such other points as are necessary.