But what can be more insipid, more frivolous, or more puerile, than that very Concinnity of expression which he actually acquired?
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They are confined to a proper compass, either by certain rules of composition, as by a kind of natural pause, or by the use of particular forms of expression, which have a peculiar Concinnity in their very texture; such as a succession of several words which have the same termination, or the comparing similar, and contrasting opposite circumstances, which will always terminate in a measured cadence, though no immediate pains should be taken for that purpose.
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Gorgias, it is said, was the first Orator who practised this species of Concinnity.
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