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is Natural, and every Thing so thought and said, that upon the Occasion it is impossible to deliver better Thoughts in better Words."

But this, my Lord, is not the Talent of Critics and Grammarians: They can give indeed the Rules of Syntax and of Rhetoric, and make a shift to exemplify them in a wretched Composition by bringing in every odd Exception in Grammar, every Figure and Scheme of Speech, Head and Shoulders, by main Force, in spite of Nature and their Subject. For be the Subject what it will, the Style and the Decorations are the same; so that their Discourse