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Meanwhile {vitious} as is the present stile of composition
in opposition contrary to the national course of Sciences whose basis is experience
on the score of it’s { -roliocity} let us beware how we fall into
the prejudice of those, who expecting to meet find that excellence
which has not appeared as yet by searching backwards
manifested shown itself.
would send us to the School of Barbarism for the models
of inferring at once their excellence of their { } Statutes from their Shortness.
of perfection [let us consider rather that] of if the 2 grand great points
of [the] Legislative composition style, Brevity & Comprehension, “
“ But Perspecuity a 3
Brevity is but one: that the Brevity which + + which the Law demand, [is the object
of the Legislator’s study] is not absolute, but proportional
a Brevity which requires causes not simply that the number of words be few,
but that it be in a small ratio to that of the Ideas: that words
not by defaleation {omifsion}, but by comprehension.
A Brevity pregnant not banin That originates not from the pen way of the imagination conception but
from it's richnefs, not from the indolence of the composer
but from his industry not from the narrownefs but from
the comprehension of his Views.
That the stile be well clad with words, neither smathi...
with them on one hand, nor naked of them on the other.
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Our idea of perfection, to be a legitimate one, must be formed
by abstraction of the views of the [present] System which
we see, not of views and it’s excellences together.
Those gloomy & false-witted speculator’s who brood over look back
with dispondence to their ancestors instead of looking
forward with hope to their posterity.
Compare the lubsto..tive clauses to be general with troops few &
ill chosen that would often instead {ennoying} their eni-
mies,recoil upon their friend.
The arts of discourse speech is Grammar is fabricated perfected not first from rule, but
from much which has been written without rule.
That abundance of materials proceeds accuracy of dispo-
sition {compilament}.
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Style … 3_2
That the vulgar
(and there are few
that are not in this
respect the vulgar)
may nod their heads
and may pay say he has
got the lingo as well
as the best of them.
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Is he a veteran in the profefsion? he goes on with it because
it is familiar to him: he is used to it, he has got the habit
of it. Is he out of the profefsion, or young in it? he takes
it up make display of his dexterity to show his expertnefs. Few indeed these are, who
as far as it can be done by this, fail of making out their
little to the reputation of able draught men: as justly as
the equally vain and obseqeous personages who by
feigning themselves partakers in the unformities of their
Sovereign, thought to become partakers in his glory.
as if the same simplicity of language, which is the
Parent of precision in all the Sciences, were in this alone
the destroyer.
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The very neck of Alexander is easier copied than his Heroism.
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compos. stat. singly - as a discourse - general idea |
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