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This form
of argument may even at times consist of a number
of clauses, as in the following passage from the same
speech1: “Was he resolved then to kill to the
dissatisfaction of some a man whom he refused to
kill to the satisfaction of all? Are we to believe
that he did not hesitate, in defiance of the law and
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despite the unfavourable circumstances both of time
and place and the risk involved to his own life, to
kill one whom he did not venture to kill when he
might have done so legally, at his own time and
place and without the least danger to himself?”
1 xvi. 41.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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