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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...that conduced to its effectiveness. Considered merely as grammatical compositions, his sentences were simple, direct, and plain, as if they had been written for a primer for children. Subject, verb, complement, and object were arranged in an almost unvarying order. He used few adjectives or other qualifiers, and those of the superlative degree he almost shunned. The simplest words, the simplest arrangement of his words--this was his almost invariable rule. But this grammatical simplicity was only the harmony of the external expression with the informing idea. Emerson's thinking found its most appropriate embodiment in individual sentences. Each of his sentences contained its own thought, and that thought was a complete whole. He rarely elaborated his sentences into effective paragraphs, or his paragraphs into logically constructed chapters. His own description of his sentences was almost literally true: "Each an infinitely repellent particle." But, though to arrange his sentences into logical paragraphs and chapters seemed to be beyond his art, upon the sentences themselves he spent such pains that each became the perfection of art. But their perfection was their simplicity, their directness, their lucidity. And each, as said before, was the embodiment in itself of an entire and self-sufficing thought. But the lucidity of the sentence was only one feature of the effectiveness of his style. The other was its realism; its concreteness. He rarely concerned himself with mere ideas or abstractions. He proves the general proposition by giving some objective illustration of it, or by stating some elementary truth as an analogy. His writing, therefore, abounds in anecdotal instances and in aphorisms. Indeed, his whole style is anecdotal and aphoristic. He...
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