More: Utopia (1685 Burnet Translation)

...worked out its sediment original: "Tartar"; the acidic crust that forms in wine casks, used here as a metaphor for impurities or harshness, and is imperceptibly original: "insensibly" brought to a purity that could not have been achieved original: "compassed" without much labor, had it not been for the great advantage we have in a Prince Likely referring to King Charles II, whose court heavily influenced the linguistic and cultural standards of the Restoration era, who is so great a judge that his single approval or dislike has almost as great an authority over our language as his royal prerogative gives him over our currency original: "Coin".

We are now so refined that, however defective our imaginations or reasonings may be, our language has fewer faults and is more natural and appropriate original: "proper" than it has ever been at any time before. When one compares the best writers of the last age with those who excel in this one, the difference is very discernible. Even the great Sir Francis Bacon, who was the first to write our language correctly—and while he is still our best author—yet