The epigrammatic of French spirit and conversation is necessarily communicated to all their writings, whose character it forms. French style is not capable of any other naturalness than that of their conversation, which is not among the most natural. The praised naturalness and grace of La Fontaine. French language is exalted as very simple, but it is incapable of translating Xenophon and some of the most simple and plain classical authors. Translations by Amyot. Perhaps easier understood by an Italian than by an uneducated Frenchman.
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