Richard Whately Quotes About Style

• El primer requisito del estilo, no sólo en retórica, sino en todas las composiciones, es la perspicuidad.

  Richard Whately

  Estilo, Primicias, Retórica

  Richard Whately (1858). "Elementos de Retórica: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution", p.300

• Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

  Richard Whately

  Intellectual, Style, Energy

• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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