ther example:

The sides of the mountain were covered with trees; the banks
of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast
shook spices from the rocks; and every mouth dropped fruits
upon the ground.

There is here an advantage in putting these four statements together,
instead of making four separate sentences. We can more easily combine
the details, and so form a single picture--a picture of fertility.

II. As a rule the full stop is not to be inserted till the sentence be
grammatically complete. But some parts of the sentence necessary to
make it grammatically complete may be left for the reader to supply.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is
the chief fact with regard to him. A man's or a nation of
men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which
he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and,
in words or otherwise, assert. Not this wholly, in many
cases not this at all.

III. When a sentence is purposely left unfinished, the dash takes the
place of the full stop. (See Rule XL.)

"Excuse me," said I, "but I am a sort of collector." "Not
Income-tax?" cried His Majesty, hastily removing his pipe
from his lips.

IV. A full stop is placed after most abbreviations, after initial
letters, and after ordinal numbers in Roman characters.

Gen. i. 20; two lbs.; A.D. 1883; 3 p.m.; &c., and etc.;
M.D., J. S. Mill; William III., King of England; MS., LL.D.
(not M.S. and L.L.D.).

Note that the use of the full stop in these cases does not prevent
another point from being used immediately after it. But if they occur
at the end of a sentence, another full stop is not added; or, more
correctly, it may be said that Rule IV. does not apply at the end of a
sentence.

"Mr," "Messrs," "Dr"--abbreviations which retain the last letter of
the whole word--are written without a point.

THE COMMA

V. The comma indicates a short pause in a sentence. It is used when we
wish to separate words that stand together, and at the same time to
stop as little as possible the flow of the sentence.

When the earl reached his own province, he found that
preparations had been made to repel him.

Though it is difficult, or almost impossible, to reclaim a
savage, bred from his youth to war and the chase, to the
restraints and the duties of civilized life, nothing is mor