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Benjamin Rush: The turgid style...

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The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.

Source: A Plan of a Federal Uninersity, 1788.
-- Benjamin Rush, (Jan 4 1746-1813), US physician, congressman; He was the most famous doctor of his time; signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1776; Surgeon General of the Continental Army, 1777-1778.


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