abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of 
Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the world.”

     They have therefore been most rigorous in putting into 
execution, the only Remedy that can be found for this 
extravagance: and that has been, a constant Resolution, to 
reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: 
to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness , when men 
deliver’d so many things, almost in an equal number of words. 
They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked,  
natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses; a  
native easiness; bringing all things as near the Mathematical  
plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans,  
Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or 
Scholars . (91)