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1826. Octr. 19 +
Review of Humphreys

§§. Agenda
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12.
12. Considered each
by itself the shorter the
Articles the better: as
imposing the less burthen
on conception and memory.
But by this brevity of the
elements, brevity of the
aggregate is diminished.

Except where it is/they are divided as above, , the
shorter the Articles are the better each Article being considered
by itself, the shorter it is the better: because the shorter it is
so much the less heavy is the burthen had by it in the conception
and the memory. Not so. But to give to each
such part taken separately the maximum of brevity, would
require a considerable addition to be made to the length and
magnitude bulkiness of the whole. Suppose for example in the form
in which the matter had in the first instance happened to present
itself one and the same noun substantive served for ten adjectives,
or one and the same verb for ten w nouns substantive.
In either case ten desirable propositions each capable of constituting
a separate article are combined into one article. Give
each proposition separate, instead of to your one article you
have substitute ten such articles.

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13. Exemplification
Say, to one adjective
ten adjectives; or, to
one verb ten substantives.
In either case, to maximize
individual brevity the
article would be divided
into ten: and in each
to compleat the proposition
and sentence, each
such adjective or substantive
would require it's compliment
of other words.

Thus brevity
of parts and of whole
antagonize.

Thus it is that the maximum of brevity applied to
the several parts antagonizes with the maximum of brevity
as applied to the whole.

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14. Of perspicacity the
maximum will be appreciated
as the excess of the grammatical
sentence over the
logical proposition is
lessened.

The Each Article will approach to the maximum
of clearness perspicacity in proportion as the grammatical sentence approaches
to the simplicity of a logical proposition

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15. In each one of a list of Sub
articles employ rather
a name substantive in the nomenclature
than a do in an oblique
case, or an adjective, or
a verb.

Reason. The noun substantive
alone presents an
independent idea, in
which repose is given to
his mind can repose itself, and take it in hand at leisure as a subject matter of consideration and discourse. The others fatigue his mind by sending it in
search after an undetermined object[+]
[+]
By fatigue
it is
betrayed into
solecisms such
as those above
exemplified.

In this case these cases to though in form the no more than a
single proposition is presented to view in substance the sentence
contains the matter of ten distinguishable propositions.

If these
propositions are so displayed as to present to view so many sub
articles, there will be a convenience in so ordering matters,
that the part of speech employed in each case should be may be noun
substantive in the nominative case rather than a noun substantive
in any oblique case, or a noun adjective, or a verb to which there is a noun substantive
grammatical

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Date_1	1826-10-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-15
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys
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Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C6 / E6
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