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I
would further have an advocate realise the order in
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which his proofs should be presented to the judge:
the method to be followed is the same as in arguments: the strongest should be placed first and
last. For those which are presented first dispose
the judge to believe us, and those which come last
to decide in our favour.
V. Having dealt with these points to the best of
my ability, I should have had no hesitation in proceeding to discuss arrangement, which is logically
the next consideration, did I not fear that, since
there are some who include judgment1 under the
head of invention, they might think that I had
deliberately omitted all discussion of judgment,
although personally I regard it as so inextricably
blent with and involved in every portion of this
work, that its influence extends even to single
sentences or words, and it is no more possible to
teach it than it is to instruct the powers of taste
and smell.
1 See III. iii. 5 and 6.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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