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It is the perfection mark characteristic of a good Legislature style, as of good writer,
that it con conveys those matters for which it is used
as a vehicle, without communicating within any savour
of its' own
In this way, one might almost say, the greater the merit is the life it is perceived.
of art at work
The merit of a work, the importance of it being given
how no difficulties will appear to be conquered surmounted is as the difficulty surmounted
how, because no difficulties occur.
They can never will scarce be brought to perceive that the
of art has been at work, upon - subject
are not classified in any character in which they see nothing of its effects.
Ornamental additament make their presence
sensible.
To know this difficulty, one should have run onself
or saw others who have run into these
defects which the merit consists in according.
Bonjour Gentilhomme
"Swaggering not strong" (for so one might parody
the parody on the poet Denham) "'oer-flowing yet not full."
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With regard to the choice of Terms, the my business is to take care
and see by a general diligent that a general diligent Term proposed
include all the particulars designed of it: contains more
curtail it's than designed, to cure it's laxity by exceptions wih respect
to its' subordinate particulars, to specify, all or none, or if
any and not all, to specify them only as examples.
Brevity of Words & of Ideas Brevity may be distinguished into Logical and
Brevities of formation Grammatical Logical regarding the formation of
Brevities of aggregation propositions, Grammatical the putting them together
in the Sentence - Brevity of Propositions & Brevity
of Sentences.
A Sentence in which there is not one superfluous Idea
presented, not word thrown in, may yet by means in virtue of it's
Grammatical construction be more prolix than another
which terms with both those superfluities.
N.B. A sentence may be less than a Proposition. For
where a proposition has limitations their limitations
may be each thrown into the form of a distinct
Sentence *
CONTAS Stat. Singly as a discourse - General Idea . Stile should on be colourless Amplitude of terms. Brevity of Sentances.
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* men are naturally disposed apt to look for some conspicuous
peculiarity as a mark of excellence in the Legislative
Style: since the propensity to copy defects of great writin
It is with this as with visual glasses, the excellence
of which consists in their having no colour of their
own.
Least of the form & most of the matter: most
of the Law, and least of the composer.
to well cultivated minds : "profulget es
quod non visitur".
If any advantitious color is at all to be admitted , it is that
tint of dignity which -
It is with the Lawyer and his draughts, as
itis with the School-boy and his Latin their
notions of the stile they are to aim at are
much alike: it must be something that is
not English: and consequence that exposition and that arrangement
seems most excellent in their eyes that are
most unlike the mode of copression and arrangement
they have been accustomed to.
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