his guests
by handing
them an
empty
plate, in
the hope
of
something
appearing
upon it.
And commas
used for a
similar
purpose
belong to
the same
family as
notes at
the foot
of the
page and
parenthesis
in the
middle of
the text;
nay, all
three
differ
only in
degree. If
Demosthenes
and Cicero
occasionally
inserted
words by
ways of
parenthesis,
they would
have done
better to
have
refrained.
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sentence
in the
original
is
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