JB/549/106/001

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1827. April 9.
Nomography

1.
Imperfections in style
are correspondent and
opposite to qualities
desirable as follows:
to clearness are
opposed. 1. ambiguity.
2. to correctness –

arise expressiveness , as
distinguished from non-cognition
and misjudication. 2. to conciseness, over-bulkiness.

2.
In relation to the thought
intended to be conveyed,
the thought actually conveyed
may be either
1. Exactly coincident and
commensurate, or
2. too narrow, expressing
not the whole of
what it should or
3. too General, expressing what, and what it shd
not or
4. Altogether different.

3.
In the first of these
cases, the expression is
correct: the three other
cases are examples of
three modes of misexpressiveness.

4.
Correspondent to these
modes of misexpressiveness
are the following
of amendment.
1. Simple addition.
2. Simple defalcation.
3. Substitution of another
locution.

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5.
To over-bulkiness applies
the word-minimizing
principle, to which corresponds
the following rule
given the thought and
the commensurately expressive
locution, minimize
the number of words
of which that locution is
composed.

6.
When, without prejudice
to commensurateness of
expression, a locution may
be amended by simple
defalcation, the words so
eliminated constitute
what is termed surplusage.

7.
Of the operation of discourse
the benefit is composed
of the thought conveyed,
the burthen, of the number
of words, of which the
location employed is composed.

8.
Of over-bulkiness, the
seat may be either⊞ ⊞ in the aggregate bulk of discourse or in separate paragraphs
paragraphs or distinguishable
sentences; or in this
or that one of the propositions,
into which such
paragraph or sentence
is resolvable.

9.
Over-bulkiness in the
aggregate bulk of discourse
may be termed voluminousness
– in this or that
paragraph, sentence or
proposition, it may be
termed lengthiness.

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10.
Thus voluminousness
may have place
without lengthiness,
or lengthiness without
voluminousness.

11.
The maximum of
over-bulkiness consists
in the union of voluminousness
and lengthiness,
of which a perfect
specimen is the English
Statute Book.

12.
Voluminousness,
not always hostile
to the ends of discourse
as in the case of a
dictionary, in which
the words are ranged
for reference in alphabetical
order. Reason –
to give a word in the
most bulky dictionary
it costs no more, or
little more time and
trouble, than to find it
in a less bulky.

13.
Exceptions when the
Dictionary extends to
many volumes, besides
that, the more bulky
the dictionary, the greater
the number of alphabets
which must
be travelled through
in seeking the word.

14.
Voluminousness and
lengthiness perfectly distinct.
By resolving a
lengthy paragraph into
a number of sentences,
for the purpose of divesting
it of lengthiness, the
voluminousness of the
aggregate is increased.

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Date_1	1827-04-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	Nomography
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