[14]
And yet our fat fool, the fashionable
schoolmaster, will regard one of these forms as an
example of omission or the other as an instance
of addition. Again there are words which when
used separately are undoubtedly incorrect, but
when used in conjunction excite no unfavourable
comment.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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