at vero in libris tuis iam illud quale est, quod et teneritudinem quamquam continuata maturitas admittit interseritque tempestivam censura dulcedinem, ut lectoris intentionem per eventilata disciplinarum philosophiae membra lassatam repente voluptuosis excessibus quasi quibusdam pelagi sui portibus foveat? o liber multifariam pollens, o eloquium non exilis sed subtilis ingenii, quod nec per scaturrigines hyperbolicas intumescit nec per tapinomata depressa tenuatur! .
But besides this, what a merit it is in your books that, although they show maturity all through, yet there are touches of tenderness, and your strictures are interspersed with well-timed winsomeness, so that the readers strained concentration, exhausted with a minute examination of the various divisions of philosophical teaching, is suddenly refreshed by charming digressions, which are like havens in his troubled sea! O book of manifold power! O utterance of a mind not thin but fine, which is neither swollen with hyperbolical spouting nor emaciated by mean and trivial words.
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