JB/549/034/001

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1831 Feb. 14
Nomography

Whatsoever be the it is your wish to communicate,
put forward – place at the most prominent part, of the your discourses
employed in giving expression to it, the word in by which the
characteristic expression is given to the most characteristic
and distinguishing part of the ideas. By this means This done, the
mind of the hearer or reader or hearers pitches upon it at once once and
sees at once what it is and takes fast hold of it: whereas
if it is kept in the back background the mind takes a not
so firm a hold of it grasps it holds it not with so strong
and firm a grasp makes not so strong an impression on the mind: and in the string of words the further
back this principal word is placed, the less strong is the
hold taken of it, and thence the less strong, and clear of all obscurity the impression made by it.
By every such preceding word a part of the force which the
mind is made to apply to the subject is as it were
absorbed and sunk: and the quantity of what remains of that
same force, and of the impression producible by it, lessened:
to change the metaphor – the mind is put upon a wrong .

☞ Proceed now to give an exemplification of this proposition.

Identifier: | JB/549/034/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1831-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	20
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field	Nomography
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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