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For
there are styles fuller or plainer than the plain, and
gentler or more vehement than the vehement, while
the gentler style itself may either rise to greater
force or sink to milder tones. Thus we may discover
almost countless species of styles, each differing from
the other by some fine shade of difference. We may
draw a parallel from the winds. It is generally accepted that there are four blowing from the four
quarters of the globe, but we find there are also
a large number of winds which he between these,
called by a variety of names, and in certain cases
confined to certain districts and river valleys.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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