When words which have been generally so applied are put together without any rational view, or in such a manner that they do not rightly agree with each other, the style is called bombast.

And it requires in several cases much good sense and experience to be guarded against the force of such language; for when propriety is neglected, a greater number of these affecting words may be taken into the service, and a greater variety may be indulged in combining them.
SECTION IV.
THE EFFECT OF WORDS.
If words have all their possible extent of power, three effects arise in the mind of the hearer.

The first is, the _sound_; the second, the _picture_, or representation of the thing signified by the sound; the third is, the _affection_ of the soul produced by one or by both of the foregoing.

_Compounded abstract_ words, of which we have been speaking, (honor, justice, liberty, and the like,) produce the first and the last of these effects, but not the second.

_Simple abstracts_ are used to signify some one simple idea without much adverting to others which may chance to attend it, as blue, green, hot, cold, and the like; these are capable of affecting all three of the purposes of words; as the _aggregate_ words, man, castle, horse, &c.