...home to us with greater force, but will discover to us other rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importanee of economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To so present ideas that they may be...

...OF THE MENTAL ENERGIES. 564. In seeking for the law which underlies these common maxims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To present ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim...

...home to us with greater force, but will discover to us other rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we...we condemn writing that is wordy, or confused, or intricate—when we praise this style as easy, and blame that as fatiguing, we consciously or unconsciously...

...us other rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current tuaxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance...of economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To_ so present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least '•• possible mental effort, is...

...THE MENTAL ENERGIES. 564. In seeking for the law which underlies these common max-ims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To present ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim...

...TUE MENTAL ENERÓLES. 504. In seeking for the law which underlies these common maxims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To prosont ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim...

...they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim of most of the rules above quoted. When we condemn writing that is wordy, or confused, or intricate ; when we praise one style as easy, and condemn another as fatiguing, we consciously or unconsciously assume this as...

...human policy so well deserving of examination as the Boman Catholic Church.'1'' " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we...of them, the importance of economizing the reader's attention." Here, as often happens, the principal subject of discourse is not the grammatcal subject...

...one general principle from which all the rules of composition result. He says : " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we...present ideas that they may be apprehended with the lesist possible mental effort, is the desideratum towards which most of the rules above quoted point....

...expressive is the best, and, in most instances, that which is the simplest is the most expressive. So to present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least possible mental effort should be our object in every sentence we write : for, as Mr. H. Spencer remarks, the time spent in...