"Minutia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... district which he represents. He therefore presents to the mind of his auditors a succession of great general truths (which he himself only comprehends, and expresses, confusedly), and of petty minutia, which he is but too able to discover and to point out. The consequence is that the debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, and that they seem rather to drag their slow ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville |
