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190 Number, but exuberant in the Richness and Significancy of his Words. Your Lordship will observe, for I speak upon my own Observation, that Livy is not so easy and obvious to be understood as Salust; the Experiment is made every where in reading five or six Pages of each Author together. The Shortness of Salust's Sentences, as long as they are clear, shows his Sense and Meaning all the Way in an Instant: The Progress is quick and plain, and every three Lines gives us a new and compleat Idea; we are carried from one Thing to another with so swift a Pace, that we run as we read, and Rh