[17]
Again, some writers introduce a whole host of
useless words; for, in their eagerness to avoid
ordinary methods of expression, and allured by
false ideals of beauty they wrap up everything in a
multitude of words simply and solely because they
are unwilling to make a direct and simple statement of the facts: and then they link up and
involve one of those long-winded clauses with others
like it, and extend their periods to a length beyond
the compass of mortal breath.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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