When in a discourse we find words repeated, and in trying to correct them find we cannot change them for others without manifest disadvantage, we must let them stand, for this is the true test; our criticism came of envy which is blind, and does not see that repetition is not in this place a fault, for there is no general rule.
Miscellaneous. Language.—Those who force words for the sake of antitheses are like those who make false windows for symmetry.
Their rule is not to speak accurately, but in accurate form.
To put a mask on nature and disguise her. No more King, pope, bishop, but sacred majesty, no more Paris, but the capital of the Kingdom.
There are places in which we should call Paris, Paris, and others in which we ought to call it the capital of the Kingdom.
There are those who speak well and write ill. Because the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than would have been produced without that warmth.
Miscellaneous.—A figure of speech, "I should have wished to apply myself to that."
The aperitive virtue of a key, the attractive virtue of a crook.
To guess. The part that I take in your sorrow. The Cardinal did not choose to be guessed.