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and takes efpccial care to inform us that " vapulandus" is a fole- 

 cifm. Thus his accurate knowledge of the Latin tongue fur- 

 nifhed him with materials to engraft into ours ; and his ofien- 

 tatious defire to difplay that knowledge concurred with the other 

 caufes above enumerated to vitiate his ftile. Determined to 

 deviate from the Englilh language, while his antipathy to the 

 French reflrained him on the one fide, his prediledion for the 

 Latin as naturally enticed him to the other. 



Yet let me not conclude this part of my fubjed with too 

 unfavourable an impreflion of our author. As I have ftated 

 fully the faults of his words, it is but candid to declare their 

 merits. They are formed according to the exad analogy of the 

 Englifli language ; they are forcible and harmonious ; but, above 

 all, they are determinate. Difcriminated from each other, and 

 appropriated each to one idea, they convey, to fuch as underftand 

 the author's language, his genuine fenfe, without fuperfluity and 

 without mutilation. The diftindions of words efleemcd fynoni- 

 mous, might from his writings be accurately collected. For thoughts 

 the moft definite, he has language the moft precife; and though 

 his meaning may foraetimes be obfcure, it can never be mif- 

 underftood. 



