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I agree that a sentence such as “I did not kill
the man” does not amount to a statement of facts:
but there will be a statement of facts, occasionally, too,
a long one, in answer to the arguments put forward
by the accuser: it will deal with the past life of the
accused, with the causes which have brought an
innocent man into peril, and other circumstances
such as show the charge to be incredible.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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