[30]
Also it must be remembered that there
is hardly a single commonplace of such universal
application that it will fit any actual case, unless
some special link is provided to connect it with
[p. 241]
the subject: otherwise it will seem to have been
tacked on to the speech, not interwoven in its
texture,
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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