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| Style | Straightforward, unpoetical, unadorned, idiomatic, drawn-out, as if the idea, to be made plain, must be driven in and clinched. |
| Rank | An ingenuous voyager; the first example of the liberal and independent gentleman journeying over the world in the pursuit of knowledge, honored wherever he went for his talents and personal accomplishments. |
| Character | Studious from childhood, unconquerably curious to see the unknown, courageous to wander wherever the step of man cound press; a knight of spotless honor, a man of unimpeached probity, and a Christian of devoted piety. |
| Influence | By the popularity of his book [Travels], he did more, probably, than any other writer of the century, to increase the proportion of Latin and Romance words in the English vocabulary. |
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