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Logic

Ch. Language

Improvement 1. Copiousness

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{But,} as there exist cases in which the alteration made in language by {the} increase given to the number of words, and combinations of words, of which it is composed, can not with propriety be set down to the account of advantage, so are there cases in which, though the addition, if made, is or would be of an advantageous nature, yet, the addition finds the introduction of it opposed, by various springs of human action, by various principles of human nature.

Indigenous weakness, viz. in the intellectual faculty, sinister interest, interest-begotten prejudice, adoptive prejudice; in this part of the field of action, as in every other, will human felicity find these its enemies set in array against it, and opposing its progress at every step.

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