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Excerpt from An Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers: Being a Sequel to One on the Power of Numbers and the Principles of Harmony in Poetic Compositions
It muft be acknowledged indeed that after the Difi'olution of the Roman Republiek, this Art be gan to be perverted by being too much admired. Men grew exceffively fond of the numerous Stile, and readily facrificed the Strength and Energy of their Difcourfe to the Harmony and Cadence of their Language. Pliny the younger often complains of this contemptible Afi'eétation. And Qgtintil/ian fpeaks of certain profe-writers tn his Time, who boafted that their Compofitions were (0 firié'tly Numerous, that their Heaters might even beat Time to their Meafures. And it fhould feem that even in Tully's Time this Matter was carryed to Excefs fince even then the Orators dealt lo much in Numbers that it was made a Qefiion, wherein they differed from the Poets.
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