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Rh yet cannot, if we read distinctly, run faster than we understand him. This, I think, is the brightest Testimony that can be given of a clear and obvious Style. In Livy, my Lord, we cannot pass on so readily; we are forced to wait for his Meaning till we come to the End of the Sentence, and have so many Clauses to sort, and refer to their proper Places in the Way, that I must own I cannot read him so readily at Sight, as I can Salust; though with Attention and Consideration I understand him as well. He is not so easy, nor so well adapted to young Proficients, as the other; and is ever Rh