Here there was no other task incumbent on me but to copy; there was no need to exaggerate or overlook, in order to produce a more unexceptionable pattern.

Here was a combination of harmonies and graces, incapable of diminution or accession without injury to its completeness.
"I found no end and no bounds to my task.

No display of a scene like this could be chargeable with redundancy or superfluity.

Even the colour of a shoe, the knot of a ribband, or your attitude in plucking a rose, were of moment to be recorded.

Even the arrangements of your breakfast-table and your toilet have been amply displayed.
"I know that mankind are more easily enticed to virtue by example than by precept.