And how little this talent is given to all is manifest by the many French scribblers of this age: they are bold and proud enough not to follow the common road, but want of invention and discretion ruins them; there is nothing seen in their writings but a wretched affectation of a strange new style, with cold and absurd disguises, which, instead of elevating, depress the matter:
baina asmamenik eta neurririk ezak galtzen ditu. Arroztasunaren arrandiatze eskas bat bakarrik ikusten zaie, mozorrotze hotz eta zentzugabeak gaia apaltzen dutenak goratu beharrean.