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Anticipation
may also be employed to establish the meaning or
propriety of words, as in the following case, “Although
that was not a punishment, but merely a prevention
of crime,”1 while the same effect may be produced
by qualification, as in the following sentence,
“Citizens, I say, if I may call them by that name.”2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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