that, instead of exhibiting them to view only in their wrappings, if we may so speak, and then instantly snatching them from our sight, we ought to dwell on them for a certain space, and thus, as it were, unfold them and open them out to vision, and present them to the minds of the hearers as things to be examined and admired.”11 The other details, then, need only cursory attention for the purposes of introduction; they “should be passed over rapidly, and thus far introduced and woven into the narrative.”12