[15]
But a simple statement will
not suffice, for even the uneducated are capable of
that: most of the points will require exaggeration
or extenuation as expediency may demand: the
method of treatment belongs to the orator, the
points themselves belong to the case.
We shall win the good-will of the judge not
merely by praising him,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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