[3]
Nor do I see why
a certain distinguished orator thought “fishes
[p. 199]
conserved in brine” a more elegant phrase than the
word which he avoided.1 But while there is no
special merit in the form of propriety which consists
in calling things by their real names, it is a fault
to fly to the opposite extreme. This fault we call
impropriety,
1 Probably salsamenta.
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