_.
It is plain therefore this was a Party Stroke in favour of the
_Naturalization_ Act, to shew what Inconveniences it hinders by
preventing Foreigners coming among us to debauch our Stile, as may be
seen by the prodigious Number of _Dutch_ Words that K. _William_ brought
with him into _England_.

Another Instance of the forc'd Homage he pays to Truth, is his blaming
_the Slavish Disposition of the Senate and People of +Rome+, by which
the Eloquence of the Age was wholly turn'd into Panegyrick_. Now
considering how many Pages he has prodigally bestow'd upon it, in the
very Letter I am taking cognizance of is it not very odd he should call
Panegyrick _a Slavish Disposition_, and worse still that he should term
it the _most barren of all Subjects_; what if I could prove, that above
half of his Three Sheets of Paper are of that kind of Panegyrick, which
is so fatal to great Men. The _Greeks_ said, _Flatterers were like so
many Ravens croaking about them, and that they never lifted a Man up but
as the +Eagle+ does the +Tortoise+, in order to get something by the
fall of him._

It is a sad Case, when Men get a habit of saying what they please, not
caring whether True or False: Who can without pity see our Letter Writer
accuse the Famous _La Bruyere_, for being accessary to the declining of
the _French_ Tongue, by his Affectation; when it is notorious, that _La
Bruyere_ is the most masterly Writer of that Nation, and that his
Affectation was in the Turn of his Thought, which he did to strike his
Readers, who had been too much us'd to dry Lessons to receive any
Impression by them. He says, he has many Hundred _New Words, not to be
found in the Common Dictionaries before his Time_. I should be glad to
know, who are those Lexicographers, whose Knowledge in the _French_
Tongue he prefers to _La Bruyere_'s; since _Richelet_ and the _Academy_
are not of his AEra, I should rejoyce with him, if a way could be found
out to _fix our Language for ever_, that like the _Spanish_ Cloak, it
might always be in Fashion; but I hope he will come into Temper with the
Inconstancy of Peoples Minds, of which he complains, and that we are in
no Fear of the Invasion and Conquest he talks of, comforting himself,
_that the best Writings may be preserved and esteem'd_, meaning his own
and his Friends, which no doubt would fare much better than Mr. _Locks_
or Mr. _Hoadly_'s; for Conquerors are not us'd to take much Care of
those that write against them