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...bluntness is its true characteristic, at others, a crafty wresting of obvious matter to serve its purpose. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and turns of language. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension — a special...

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