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The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
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Men

Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
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Firsts

Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.300

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