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156 Simplicity of their Dress. His Answer to Sorbiere is so handsome a Way of exposing an empty, triﬂing, pretending Pedant, the Wit so lively, the Satyr so courtly, and so severe, and his Address in maintaining the Honour of our Country so masterly and accomplished, that he maketh his Adversary a ridiculous Thing too lnconsiderable for our Anger, at once the Subject of our Diversion and Contempt: His Letters to my Lord Dorset are the best Patterns of Apology, and a true Epistolary Style on a publick Subject: His Sermons are truly ﬁne, so very beautiful, and so extremely studied in every Rh