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Rh what is ﬁt to be spoken upon any Subject. And Thought is then in the last Perfection, when it is so bright, so lively, so just, so full, that on the same Subject You cannot invent any, Finer, or more Proper in the whole Compass of Nature and Imagination.

There is a close Connection between the Thoughts and Words, and when a Man hath throughly digested the one, the other will follow not only with Ease, but Propriety, when he is a perfect Master of the Language he writeth in. It must be a great Fault of the Judgment, if where the Thoughts are proper, the Rh