"Words.—A well-educated person in Eng land, who has been at a public school and at the university, who reads his Bible, his Shakespeare, the papers, and all the books of Mudie's Library, seldom uses more than 3,000 or 4,000 words in actual conversation. Accurate thinkers and close rcasoners, who avoid vague and general expressions, and wait till they find tho word that actually fits their meaning, employ a larger stock ; and eloquent speakers risetoacouunandof 10,000: The Hebrew Testament says all that it has to say with 5,G42 words; Milton's works are built up with 8,000; and Shakespeare, who probably displayed a greater variety of expresion than any writer in any language, I produced all lais plays with about. 15,000 I words.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4050, 5 November 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)
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