In Employing Fiction To Make Truth Clear

The Knowledge Of The Theory Of Logic Has No Tendency Whatever To Make Men Good Reasoners.

In Truth It May Be Laid Down As An Almost Universal Rule That Good Poets Are Bad Critics.

To That Class We May Leave It To Refine The Vernacular Dialects Of The Country, To Enrich Those Dialects With Terms Of Science Borrowed From The Western Nomenclature, And To Render Them By Degrees Fit Vehicles For Conveying Knowledge To The Great Mass Of The Population.

The Great Cause Of Revolutions Is This, That While Nations Move Onward, Constitutions Stand Still.

Propriety Of Thought And Propriety Of Diction Are Commonly Found Together. Obscurity And Affectation Are The Two Greatest Faults Of Style. Obscurity Of Expression Generally Springs From Confusion Of Ideas; And The Same Wish To Dazzle, At Any Cost, Which Produces Affectation In The Manner Of A Writer, Is Likely To Produce Sophistry In His Reasonings.