Martial

.

Bouhours

,

[whom]

I look upon to be the most penetrating of all the

French

Criticks, has taken pains to shew, that it is impossible for any Thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its Foundation in the Nature of things: That the Basis of all Wit is Truth; and that no Thought can be valuable, of which good Sense is not the Ground-work

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