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Thought And Expression

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
December
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Upou the opening of the ijtatistical Soction of the British Associution, Lord Sianley the president, oftored same celltnt adviee is to speakitig " You can siiy all you have ot to say in very fow woids il' you will think it over beforehaud. It is i;ot ibunduuuc of matter, t is want of preparation, want of exact thought, tbat mukcs difluseuesw. A man gous round and round his nu-auíug when he in not perfectly olear. - Again, we dori't want proauible or puroiutious. We are uot u school of rhetoi'ie ; aud ia addressing an educatod audience a good deul uiay be taken for granted. Lastlv, we ooly wish to gut the truth oí' things." Quintilian has vvritten to the saine effect, aud goe3 oven further, for ha says that á perfect thought will alvvays elotho itself Ml appropriatii language, and that vvhon peopla nuppose that thuy aru in want of worda to expresa themselves they are roally iu want of thought, have onlv got hok! of part of i thought nstead of the complete thought, aud are in diifioulty about the olothing of an uniorined thing. De ilcz suys that otrong einotions find theiir utttrances in mono syllables, and the lauguaga of the poor in grief ia often of au earöegtness uiid simplioitv rising to eloquencc. Out of the fulluess of the heart tho mouth speaketh, It vvua syid of au aocieut writer's negligence that it was that of a íuan Btudying fiis matter more thah his expressioa ; but, f Quiutiüau be right, the author had uot completely rnastwed his matter, and thereforo feil nto faults oí aianper. Quiuiiliuu niay, perhaps push the proposition a little too far, but it is 8 sater general rule to suspeet the completeneBB of thought when itsdeliverv in woids is difiSeult, aud calis for help. As Lord Stauloy well says. "a man goea round aud round his ineauiug

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