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1827 April 6
Logic Language and Codes under title Form
The effect of bulkiness is not in every instance
hostile to the ends of discourse. A certain species of discourse
there is which whatsoever may be its degree of
bulkiness can never be charged with over-bulkiness.
This is a vocabulary or say dictionary, composed
or words ranged – or say placed one after another in
alphabetic method – say in the order of in which the letters are
placed in the aggregate of them designated in the appellation
of the alphabet. Why? – Answer. Because to find
the in the most bulky dictionary the word which on
the occasion in question is connected with the mass of literary
matter you have need to look at costs no more time and
trouble than to find it in any the least bulky dictionary.
If this is not in the strictest and most literal sense
true, so slight is the difference as to be scarcely worth mention or regard.
When the bulk of a dictionary is such as to cause the aggregate
of it to be divided into volumes more than one in some
instances two volumes may require to be taken done and
looked at instead of more than one.
Moreover the more bulky a dictionary is, the
greater is the number of the alphabets which in order to
find the word you want you are obliged in travel
through: which this number is the number of the letters
capable contained in the word.
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