Friday, June 8, 2007
Excercise III Douglass
I will venture to assert that my friend Mr. Nathan Johnson, of whom I can say with a grateful heart “I was hungry, and he gave me meat. I was thirsty and he gave me drink. I was a stranger, and he took me in lived in a neater house, dined at a better table, read more and better understood the moral, religious, and political character of the nation than nine-tenths of the slaveholders in Talbot County, Maryland.
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You've got most of it. Where does the quote end, though? Have a look there; you need the quotes and some other punctuation.
The periods within the quotes are perfectly alright, but semicolons would be particularly graceful, since they don't altogether stop the flow of the quoting sentence.
Usually when one quotes something that has been printed, one has no choice, since one must quote accurately. In this case, various translations punctuate these phrases differently, so we have more choice.
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