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Rh Herodotus displays a natural Oratory in the Beauty and Clearness of a numerous and solemn Diction; he floweth with a sedate and majestic Pace, with an easy Current, and a pleasant Stream. Thucydides doth sometimes write in a Style so close, that almost every Word is a Sentence, and every Sentence almost acquaints us with something New, so that from the Multitude of Clauses, and Variety of Matter crowded together, we should suspect him to be obscure; but yet so happy, so admirable a Master is he in the Art of Expression, so proper, and so full, that we cannot say whether his Diction Rh