To jumble together words without care for the sense, is an unpardonable negligence, and an abuse of the human understanding.
CRITICAL NOTE IX.—OF WORDS NEEDLESS.
Words that are entirely needless, and especially such as injure or encumber the expression, ought in general to be omitted.
CRITICAL NOTE X.—OF IMPROPER OMISSIONS.
Words necessary to the sense, or even to the melody or beauty of a sentence, ought seldom, if ever, to be omitted.
CRITICAL NOTE XI.—OF LITERARY BLUNDERS.
Grave blunders made in the name of learning, are the strongest of all certificates against the books which contain them unreproved.
CRITICAL NOTE XII.—OF PERVERSIONS.
Proof-texts in grammar, if not in all argument, should be quoted literally; and even that which needs to be corrected, must never be perverted.