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however, to figures of thought and
speech would add those produced by “glosses”;1 but
he has merely been led astray by an excessive passion
for novelty. For who can suppose that so learned
a man was ignorant of the fact that “glosses”
and “reflexions” both come under the heading of
thought? We may therefore conclude that, like
language itself, figures are necessarily concerned with
thought and with words.
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1 See IV. ii. 88. color = “the particular aspect given to a case by a skilful representation of the facts—the 'gloss' or varnish put on them by either the accused or the accuser.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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