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Some Peoples Heads are either so empty, or so disconcerted, that nothing is more removed from the Matter they have laid out to treat on, than their Thoughts; and if it sometimes happeneth that they do not wander quite away from their Purpose, the Misfortune is, that on the gravest, noblest Subjects, their Thoughts are light and foolish, poor and mean, and on the most inconsiderable, trifling Matters, they are all Noise and Bombast, Affecting Splendor and Rh