id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5849 Spencer, Herbert The Philosophy of Style .txt text/plain 12211 605 65 that "long sentences fatigue the reader's attention." It is remarked by other cases, where custom allows us to express thoughts by single words, collocation of words, in the best arrangement of clauses in a sentence, it be an advantage to express an idea in the smallest number of words, of cases, each word serving but as a step to the idea embodied by the saving of the effort required to translate words into thoughts. every sentence, the sequence of words should be that which suggests And as effect is gained by placing first all words The general principle of right arrangement in sentences, which we that the words and expressions most nearly related in thought shall and arrangements is great, in proportion as the time and mental effort the order of the words, in the frequent use of figures, and in extreme a form of words and realizing its contained idea, we have to consider ./cache/5849.txt ./txt/5849.txt