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In other portions of this work I have attempted to
introduce a certain amount of ornateness, not, I may
say, to advertise my style (if I had wished to do that, I
could have chosen a more fertile theme), but in order
that I might thus do something to lure our young
men to make themselves acquainted with those principles which I regarded as necessary to the study of
rhetoric: for I hoped that by giving them something
which was not unpleasant to read I might induce a
greater readiness to learn those rules which I feared
[p. 373]
might, by the dryness and aridity which must necessarily characterise their exposition, revolt their minds
and offend their ears which are nowadays grown
somewhat over-sensitive.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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