commaes

Example Sentences

• "And yet although, for the most part Commaes, conteyn not aboue, six or seauen syllables, which number, is prescribed to them by Hermogenes,: Neuertheles, they may sometyme, be enlarged, furder, as those sentences, of Tully arre. […] Whearof the one conteyneth viii, the other ix syllables: But as they ar lengthned, so may they be contracted, and cutt shorter, when a sentence Hauinge manny syllables, is reduced to fewer, as to fyve, fower, three, or two: which ar the members of the least commaes / After this soart, ar Commaes, to be measured, when they ar not conteyned, in the compasse of periodes: […] it oftentymes chaunceth, that a Comma, is as Longe as a member, and a member, as shoart as a Comma, But the seuerall, and proper precepts, of Commaes, ar those, befoare mentioned. Thus much of Commaes: It foloweth in order, now to entreat of members […] Cap: 6 whowe Commaes and Members, ar ioyned in sentences / With Members in sentences, Commaes, ar often tymes ioyned: without anny full compasse, and periode: […] Howe Commaes, Members, and Periods, ar mingeled / In some sentences, Commaes, Members, and Periodes, ar mingled together thus […] But Aristotells definition, is bothe Larger and better, which demetrius Palereus, folowed in defininge a periode, to be, a composition of Commaes, and Members, appliable, to the persetinge of a sentence […] Finally the last and longest kynde, of compoundinge woords, and sentences, is called of the greake rhetoricians, of the latines, productio spiritus oratorii: which is a composition, of the oration, finishinge a sentence, with Commaes onely, and members, without full compasse of woords, and sentences,: and it is extended, and lengthened so farre, as the breath and strength of the orator, will suffer, and for that cause, is called productio spiritus"
• "Some other ſmal eſcapes, as in the Greeke miſtaking of an accent or ſpirit, an ο for ω, an ε for an η or contrary; in the Latin an u for an n, the multitude or want the multitude or want of commaes, the darke printing and ſometime leauing out of a letter, as euident to euery one we haue not regarded."
• "For other errors as the miſplacing of commaes, colons, and periods (which as they are in euerie page obuious, ſo many times they inuert the ſence) I referre to your diſcretion (iudicious gentle-men) whoſe lenity may ſooner ſupply them, then all my induſtrie can portray them."
• "A Parentheſis is made of two Commaes on each ſide."
• "The Poet at the Lawyer layes on loads, / Of Dactiles, Spondees, Annagrams and Oades. Of Satyres, Epigrams, Apoſtrophies. Of Stops, of Commaes, of Parentheſis."
• "Now the words of the Angell conſiſts either of one comma, here is the minde which hath underſtanding, to wit, hid: for, herein is a myſticall ſenſe that cannot be ſearched out by the mind of man: Or of two commaes, or clauſes, One being, Here is wiſedome: the other, he that hath wiſedome, that is, let him underſtand."