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thor, and carries his Meaning uppermost; but long Periods, and a Multiplicity of Clauses, however they abound with the most obvious and significant Words, do necessarily make the Meaning more retired, less forward and obvious to the View: And in this, my Lord, Livy may seem as crowded as Thucydides, if not in the Number of Periods, certainly in the Multitude of Clauses, which so disposed, do rather obscure, than illuminate his Writings. But in so rich, so majestic, so flowing a Writer, we may wait with Patience to the End of the Sentence, for the Pleasure still increaseth as we read. The
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