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can divest himself of inborn personality; and personality is bound to qualify diction.

(ii) Varieties of Style: Grand Style, Pedestrian Style, Epistolary Style, Anecdotical [sic] Style, the Style of Conversation, and the Style of Description.
(iii) There should be no disproportion between the thing said and the way of saying it.

(iv) The final end of all Style is precision, vivacity of utterance, truth to the thing to be presented.—J. A. SYMONDS.

(h) (i) The Style of an author should be the image of his mind Element. (=Subjective)

(ii) The choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise (= Objective

Element).—GIBBON.

(2) Conciseness is a primary virtue of all statement.—T. WATTS-DUNTON.


(j) The highest triumph of Style is to say what everybody has been thinking in such a way as to make it new.—LESLIE STEPHEN.

(k) (i) Qualités de Style de M. Thiers: La clarté, la chaleur, et le mouvement. Il est parfaitement approprié, h.y.,