It I had more Room, and more Leisure, I should have endeavour'd to explain the Difference between the several Ways of Thinking. Some of them I have attempted, and I hope it may stir up a greater Genius, to do in _English_ as Pere _Bouhours_ has done in _French_, which would introduce a beautiful and just Manner both in Thought and Expression. It would then be known why it is that Archbishop _Tillotson_ and Bishop _Sprat_ are both esteem'd Masters of the _English_ Language; why Sir _William Temple_, and Sir _Roger L'Estrange_, the _Tatler_, and the _Spectator_, are generally spoken of as fine Writers; though their Manner is as different as their Faces. Every Thing that pleases in Writing is with us, as I have already hinted, resolved into Wit, whether it be in the Thought or the Expression. _Nay some_, says the _Spectator_, _carry the Notion of Wit so far, as to ascribe it to Puns and Quibbles, and even to external Mimickry, and to look upon a Man as an ingenious Person that can resemble the Tone, Gesture, or Face of another_. With such admirable Judges as these, Sir _Isaac Newton_'s Discourse of _Fluxions_ is very witty, as the Machine called the _Orrery_ was said to be very _wittily_ contrived. With these _Estcourt_, _Penkethman_, and even _Norris_ are Wits, as the _Spaniards_ take the _Apes_ to be, and that they won't speak because they would not work. I have known two or three Actors who got into Vogue by Grimace only, and acting Parts that had neither Wit nor Sense in them. Every one of the Kinds of right Thinking has its opposite, as every Virtue has its Vice; and the Sublime especially is apt to be mistaken in the Pomp and Puffiness of Description. Of this Kind is that Passage, where Mr. _Eachard_ describes the Sea-Fight between the _English_ and the _Dutch_, in the Time of the _Rump_.