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t the period; 4to or 8vo has no more need of it than 4th or 8th; and N. L. 8 deg. 9' 10'' is an expression little to be mended by commas, and not at all by additional periods. OBS. 5.--To allow the period of abbreviation to supersede all other points wherever it occurs, as authors generally have done, is sometimes plainly objectionable; but, on the other hand, to suppose double points to be always necessary wherever abbreviations or Roman numbers have pauses less than final, would sometimes seem more nice than wise, as in the case of Biblical and other references. A concordance or a reference Bible pointed on this principle, would differ greatly from any now extant. In such references, _numbers_ are very frequently pointed with the period, with scarcely any regard to the pauses required in the reading; as, "DIADEM, Job 29. 14. Isa. 28. 5. and 62. 3. Ezek. 21. 26."--_Brown's Concordance_. "Where no vision is, the people perish, Prov. xxix. 18. Acts iv. 12. Rom. x. 14."--_Brown's Catechism_, p. 104. "What I urge from 1. Pet. 3. 21. in my Apology."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 498. "I. Kings--II. Kings."--_Alger's Bible_, p. iv. "Compare iii. 45. with 1. Cor. iv. 13."--_Scott's Bible, Pref. to Lam. Jer._ "Hen. v. A. 4. Sc. 5."--_Butler's Gram._, p. 41. "See Rule iii. Rem. 10."--_Ib._, p. 162. Some set a _colon_ between the number of the chapter and that of the verse; which mark serves well for distinction, where both numbers are in Arabic figures: as, "'He that formed the eye, shall he not see?'--Ps. 94: 9."--_Wells's Gram._, p. 126. "He had only a lease-hold title to his service. Lev. 25: 39, Exod. 21: 2."--_True Amer._, i. 29. Others adopt the following method which seems preferable to any of the foregoing: "Isa. Iv, 3; Ezek. xviii, 20; Mic. vi, 7."--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 133. Churchill, who is uncommonly nice about his punctuation, writes as follows: "_Luke_. vi, 41, 42. See also Chap. xv, 8; and _Phil._, iii. 12."--_New Gram._, p. 353. OBS. 6.--Arabic figures used as ordinals, or used for the numeral adverbs, _first_, or _firstly, secondly, thirdly, &c._, are very commonly pointed with the period, even where the pause required after them is less than a full stop; as, "We shall consider these words, 1. as expressing _resolution_; and 2. as expressing _futurity_."--_Butler's Gram._, p. 106. But the period thus followed by a small letter, has not an agreeable appearance, and some would here prefer the comma, which is, undoub
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