[5]
On
the other hand it is emphatically part of his
[p. 249]
prosession and the undertaking which he makes in
offering himself as a teacher of eloquence, to point
out the merits of authors or, for that matter, any
faults that may occur: and this is all the more the
case, as I am not asking teachers to undertake the
task of recalling their pupils to standat their knee once
more and of assisting them in the reading of whatever book they may select.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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