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CHAPTER VI.

OF THE AMPLITUDE AND TENUITY OF LANGUAGE.

A man shall add _amplitude_ or _dignity_ to his language, but by such means as these.

1. By changing the _name_ with the _definition_, as occasion shall serve. As, when the _name_ shall be indecent, by using the _definition_; or contrary.

2. By _metaphors_.

3. By using the _plural_ number for the _singular_.

4. By _privative epithets_.

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