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At the present time
the misfortune is that teachers more often than not
pass over what is necessary in silence, and utility is
not accounted one of the good qualities of eloquence.
But I have dealt with these points in another work,1
and shall often have to recur to them in this. I will
now return to my prescribed course.
1 Perhaps the lost de causis corruptae eloquentiae.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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