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112 Your Lordship, I would pass on from Painters to Statuarys, whose Excellence it is, at first to form true and just Proportions, and afterwards to give them that Softness, that Expression, that Strength, and Delicacy, which make them almost breathe, and live.

My Lord, the Decorations of Style are formed out of those several Schemes and Figures, which are contrived to express the Passions and Motions of our Minds in our Speech; to give Life and Ornament, Grace and Beauty, to our Expressions. I shall not undertake the Rhetoricians Province, in giving Your Lordship an Account of Rh