111. Decedente atque immo potius pereunte ab urbibus
Gallicanis liberalium cultura literarum, etc. (in praefat.
in tom. ii. p. 137), is the complaint of Gregory himself,
which he fully verifies by his own work. His style is
equally devoid of elegance and simplicity. In a conspicuous
station he still remained a stranger to his own age and
country; and in a prolix work (the five last books contain
ten years) he has omitted almost everything that posterity
desires to learn. I have tediously acquired, by a painful
perusal, the right of pronouncing this unfavourable
sentence.