 The inch, the threequarter-inch, the half-inch, the quarter-inch; these would be something determinate; but, "the dash," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, "the dash" is a cover for ignorance as...  A Concise Manual of Style - Page 65by Hiram Allan Reed - 1920 - 75 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1827 - 532 pages
...what, by some, is called the dash. Who is to know what is intended by the use of these dushes ? .... It is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points ; and it can answer no other purpose." In Letter XV, there is a singular conceit with regard to the keeping up a distinction between a and... | |
 | John Best Davidson - 1839 - 208 pages
...the ' dash,' without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle short, the ' dash ' is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose. A dash is very often put, in crowded print, in order to save the room that would be lost by the breaks... | |
 | F. Francillon - English language - 1842 - 118 pages
...parenthesis points. Cobbett's opinion of the dash is expressed in his concise and pithy language :40 "the dash is a cover for ignorance as to the use of...points, and it can answer no other purpose." Cobbett would dismiss the dash altogether and he is wrong : others would use it for half a dozen different... | |
 | John Best Davidson - 1846 - 152 pages
...' dash,' without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, the 'dash' is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose. A dash is very often put in crowded print, in order to save the room that would be lost by the breaks... | |
 | John Graham (compositor.) - 1848 - 94 pages
...dash," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, *' the dash" is a cover for ignorance as to the use of...points, and it can answer no other purpose.— COBBETT. The dash is used after titles of subjects, when several are classed together, as in the argument or... | |
 | Thomas Young - Egypt - 1855 - 660 pages
...what, by some, is called the dash. Who is to know what is intended by the use of these dashes ? .... It is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points ; and it can answer no other purpose." In Letter XV. there is a singular conceit with regard to the keeping up a distinction between a and... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - 230 pages
...dash," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, " the dash" is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it ean answer no other purpose. A dash is very often put, in crowded print, in order to save the room... | |
 | Alfred Ayres - English language - 1881 - 238 pages
...the dash,' without measure, must be a perilous thing for the young grammarian to handle. In short, ' the dash ' is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose." This is one of the few instances in which Cobbett was wrong. The dash is the proper point with which... | |
 | William Cobbett - English language - 1883 - 264 pages
...dash," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, " the dash " is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose. A dash is very often put in crowded print, in order to save the room that would be lost by the breaks... | |
 | Robert Waters - English language - 1883 - 616 pages
...das//," without measure, must be a most perilous thing for a young grammarian to handle. In short, " the dash" is a cover for ignorance as to the use of points, and it can answer no other purpose.—A dash is very often put in crowded print, in order to save the room that would be lost... | |
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