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Besides, what can be simpler or clearer than a straightforward partition ? It follows nature as a guide and
the adhesion to a definite method is actually of the
greatest assistance to the speaker's memory. Therefore I cannot approve the view even of those who
lay down that partition should not extend beyond
the length of three propositions. No doubt there is
a danger, if our partition is too complicated, that it
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may slip the memory of the judge and disturb his
attention. But that is no reason why it should be
tied down to a definite number of propositions, since
the case may quite conceivably require more.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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