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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)