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90 are not so too: A Disagreement between these seldom happens, but among Men of more recondite Studies, and what they call deep Learning, especially among Your Antiquaries and Schoolmen.

In every sprightly Genius, the Expression will ever be lively as the Thoughts. All the Danger is, that a Wit too fruitful should run out into unnecessary Branches; but when it is matured by Age, and corrected by Judgment, the Writer will prune the luxuriant Boughs, and cut off the superﬂuous Shoots of Fancy, thereby giving both Strength and Beauty to his Work. Rh