With new-made wounds, another dragg'd a dead.
(Ibid. xviii. 536.)
And this of Demosthenes:--
"A bully in an assault may do much which his victim cannot even report
to another person,--by his attitude, his look, his voice,--when he
insults, when he attacks as an enemy, when he smites with his fist,
when he strikes a blow on the face. These rouse a man; these make a man
beside himself who is unused to such foul abuse."
And again:--
"Not so with Midias; but from the very day, he talks, he abuses, he
shouts. Is there an election of magistrates? Midias the Anagyrrasian is
nominated. He is the advocate of Plutarchus; he knows state secrets; the
city cannot contain him." ("Demosthenes against Midias," p. 537,25, and
p. 578, 29.)
Therefore the figure asyndeton, whereby conjunctions are omitted, is
highly commended by writers of rhetoric. But such as keep overstrict to
the law, and (according to custom) omit not a conjunction, rhetoricians
blame for using a dull, flat, tedious style, without any variety in it.
And inasmuch as logicians mightily want conjunctions for the joining
together their axioms, as much as charioteers want yokes, and Ulysses
wanted withs to tie Cyclop's sheep; this shows they are not parts of
speech, but a conjunctive instrument thereof, as the word conjunction
imports. Nor do conjunctions join all, but only such as are not spoken
simply; unless you will make a cord part of the burthen, glue a part
of a book, or distribution of money part of the government. For Demades
says, that money which is given to the people out of the exchequer for
public shows is the glue of a democracy. Now what conjunction does so of
several propositions make one, by fitting and joining them together, as
marble joins iron that is incited with it in the fire? Yet the marble
neither is nor is said to be part of the iron; although in this case the
substances compose the mixture and are melted together, so as to make a
common substance from several and to be mutually affected. But there be
some who think that conjunctions do not make anything one, but that this
kind of speech is merely an enumeration, as when magistrates or days are
reckoned in order.
Moreover, as to the other parts of speech, a pronoun is manifestly a
sort of noun; not only because it has cases, but because some pronouns,
when they are used of objects already defined, by their mere utterance
give the most distinct designation of them. Nor do I know
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