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1830 March 31.
J.B. to Herries on Parly Bookkeeping.
Now what I stand perfectly assured
of & have so done for a great number of years
is — that for every one of these locutions might
be found & to it substituted a completely equivalent
one constituted by a phrase in universal.
& abundantly frequent use: in the
language I have been wont to employ on this
occasion an exposition in the way of paraphrase:
— the equivalent of that mode of exposition
to which by logic — can the name of a definition
has been attached.
Of the technical misexpressive &
obscurifying locutions happily the number is
so small that by a few pages of space
& not many hours of time the smoke &
clouds spread over the field of the
subject as above might be blownaway in
my notion of the matter to be blown away.
Go on to speak of the necessity of having a
coadjutor to explain to me in his own way
the meaning if these locutions; & to enable
me to see the use of the reciprocality in
double entry.
But
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