Part 166 (1/2)

2 ”Ah! what avails

All that art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, If envy, scorn, re?”--_Id_

3 ”Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible; Thou, stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless”--_Shak_

4 ”She plans, provides, expatiates, triuerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies”--_Milton_

RULE IV--ONLY TWO WORDS

When only tords or terms are connected by a conjunction, they should not be separated by the comma; as, ”It is a _stupid and barbarous_ way to extend doot by _arts and industry_”--_Spectator_, No 2

”_Despair and anguish_ fled the struggling soul”--_Goldsmith_

EXCEPTION I--TWO WORDS WITH ADJUNCTS

When the tords connected have several adjuncts, or when one of them has an adjunct that relates not to both, the comma is inserted; as, ”I shall spare no pains to reeable, and their diversion useful”--_Spectator_, No 10 ”_Who_ is applied to persons, or things personified”--_Bullions_

”With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more”--_Johnson_

EXCEPTION II--TWO TERMS CONTRASTED

When two connected words or phrases are contrasted, or euished, the coed, and easily disobliged”--_Kames_

”Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand”--_Beattie_

”'Tis certain he could write, and cipher too”--_Goldsmith_

EXCEPTION III--ALTERNATIVE OF WORDS

When there is e of ter, or inlet”--_W Allen_ ”Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles?”--_Cor_, ix, 5

EXCEPTION IV--CONJUNCTION UNDERSTOOD

When the conjunction is understood, the comma is inserted; and, if two separated words or terms refer alike to a third term, the second requires a second coreat aim”--_L Murray, Gram_, p 269

”To hin”--_Johnson_

”She thought the isle that gave her birth

The sweetest, wildest land on earth”--_Hogg_

RULE V--WORDS IN PAIRS

When successive words are joined in pairs by conjunctions, they should be separated in pairs by the comma; as, ”Interest and aratitude and revenge, are the prime enious or dull, learned or ignorant, clownish or polite, every innocent ht to liberty as to life”--_Beattie's Moral Science_, p 313