It is sufficient to say here that if precision of mind, as well as clarity and distinctness in discourse, should always appear in everything one writes (since one ought to write only to make known the truth), then it is impossible to excuse this author, who, even according to Salmasius,b the greatest critic of our times, has exened all his effons toward making himself obscure, and who has succeeded so well in his plan that this commentator was led to swear that no one ever understood him perfectly.