Unemphatically speaking
John Anderson entreats Friends to use plain speech
If I were a Quaker pope I would permanently proscribe the use of adjectives such as ‘deep’, ‘total’, ‘profound’ and ‘absolute’. Actually, I would forbid the employment of all ‘emphatic and extravagant quantifiers’ in our Friendly discourse and writing.
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