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1827 April 6
Logic Language and Codes under title Form
Over-bulkiness Of the quality or denominated over-bulkiness
the subject matter or say seat referred to
may be either the bulk of the aggregate composed of the
entire discourse considered as a whole, or the bulk of this or
that portion of it separately considered: that is to say
either one entire paragraph or this or that one of the
several sentences distinguishable sentences if more than one of which the grammatical language the paragraph
is composed, or this or that one if more than
one into which the of the proposition, of into which in logical
language the sentence is capable of being resolved.
The Over-bulkiness when applied to designate the excess
in the number of the words of which the entire discourse considered
as a whole is composed may for distinction sake
be termed voluminousness: when applied to designate
the excess in the number of the words of which this or
that paragraph, sentence or proposition is composed, it
may be termed lengthiness.
Thus it is that in the discourse in question, voluminousness
may have place without lengthiness, or lengthiness
with voluminousness.
To constitute the maximum of over-bulkiness
requires the union of the two both qualities if lengt namely
lengthiness and voluminousness.
A specimen in which the measure of the
two component elements may be found united – each of them
at its maximum – each of them in a state of the highest
perfection, is the English Statute Book: the aggregate composed
of the whole matter of that which has in the entire or say aggregate mass
of the rule of action has a real existence.
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