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The same basis includes such general
questions as to whether we should stand by the
[p. 143]
letter or the intention of the document, and what
was the purpose of the writer, while for the treatment of such questions we must have recourse to
quality or conjecture, with which I think I have dealt
in sufficient detail.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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