In the advertisement for this English translation of de la Mothe-Fenelon’s Telemachus:
An Essay on Punctuation, 12mo. Fourth edition, price 3s.
“No person can read, or even speak, with propriety or elegance, who has not a competent knowledge of the stops and pauses.” Essay on Elocut.
Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses. Translated from the French … with notes, by the author of The Dissertation on the Parian Chronicle. London, 1795. A recent acquisition.
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