This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...fines transient, euro-prorsus crtet esse impudentem. But to say, Qui semel verecundice, eum prorsus oportet esse impt ientem, fines transient, Would render the sense obscure and Unintelligible. Besides this obscurity, whoever wishes to acquire an elegant style, will be careful to avoid a too frequent repetition of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...fines transient, euro-prorsus crtet esse impudentem. But to say, Qui semel verecundice, eum prorsus oportet esse impt ientem, fines transient, Would render the sense obscure and Unintelligible. Besides this obscurity, whoever wishes to acquire an elegant style, will be careful to avoid a too frequent repetition of the same word, if it does not tend to give greater weight or perspicuity to the subject The same syllable too closely and frequently repeated, cannot but be harsh to the ears, and therefore inelegant. Several words following each other with the same termination, should be carefully avoided. To this negligence must be referred a too great concourse or clashing of the same letter, which either must produce a disagreeable harshness in the sound, if. a repetition of the same consonants, as, rex Xerxes, or, if they are vowels, must cause such a hiatus as will produce some difficulty in pronouncing, as, magno operto ore. Where it is possible to give a strict attention to the smooth concourse of the words, without endangering the force of the idea, when the preceding word terminates with a consonant, the next should begin with a vowel, and vice versa. There are a few words, however, the succession of which is not arbitrary, but which has been fixed by the unvaried usage of the ancients. Ac is not found before a vowel, but always before a consonant: we do not say ac ego, but atque ego; seldom neque autem, but neque verd.--It will also be very necessary to guard against poetical endings of a prose sentence, which, though not very culpable or disagreeable in themselves, yet will not fail to displease, as they carry an appearance of affectation and studied conceit. This fault, indeed, was much sooner observed by the ancients, who are supposed, in their commo...
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