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Prelude. IX
By this means the mind [is no more appalled] finds
no more difficulty in the working up of a part by
the from consciousness of the largeness of the remainder,
than the stomach does in the digesting of a
morsel of bread from its having once formed
a part of a large loaf.
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Procedure.
As to a system summary of procedure, if no compleat
one is here given, it is not that none was
wanted, nor as it should seem, that none
was attempted. thought of
The Regular being already established, universally
applicable, it is but to refer to it.
But the summary, not having very much establishment,
must be cut out new new wrought for every
occasion. No defects can be supplied from There is no general repository from whence
deficiencies may be supplied.
I flatter myself that even this loose sketch, how important & how numerous soever its imperfections, might
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Vitare bas crit — Vitare omnes
To keep clear of the several species of Redundance
here characterized & exemplified, will be
to keep clear, of far the greatest part of those
that can infest a composition.
And every composition is obnoxious to them.
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Rules for the extirpation of redundancies
Ob Perspicuit. in omissae x - Precisionem insertoe.
The Definitions &c They are left out of the body of the work
for the sake of perspicuity; they are
inserted in a Section apart of their own for the purpose, for
the sake of precision.
Typo insignitoe
These definitions would be of little use
unless it were known there are such.
its a momento therefore, the words defined
are constantly distinguished from those around the rest
them by a different Type.
Finis specialis primo extra propositum — irrepsit samen
The truth of the matter is, my intention
was no other than to take notice of such
particulars as were relevant in the subject I had chosen to the general design;
to note such defects as arise immediately
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Neque omnisio alienus
& soley from tautology Wordiness & the want of
System. As I advanced however, I found it impossible
to forbear I could not resist the temptation taking the opportunity of
noticing such other supposed defects as lay
in the road tho' not or referable strictly obviously to
either of those two causes. Not that I do not regard
even these this as entirely utterly foreign to the design,
since I cannot imagine that they would have
escaped the compilers any more than they have
escaped me, had they but had a clear prospect
of the whole in speculation with that facility in that state, that to which
results from the it is reducible by the combined influence efficacy of Brevity
& Order.
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Fides ne esto rimis indicalis Judicibus longae manus
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