[106]
But while some fresh considerations are bound to
present themselves in every kind of subject, this is
more especially the case in questions turning on
[p. 261]
the letter of the law, since not merely individual
words, but still more whole phrases are frequently
ambiguous.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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