[H]e spake well, his style had no flaw in it, but had a just mixture of wit and sense, only he spoke too copiously; he had a great pleasantness in his spirit, which carried him sometimes too far into raillery, in which he sometimes shewed more wit than discretion.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[H]e spake well, his style had no flaw in it, but had a just mixture of wit and sense, only he spoke too copiously; he had a great pleasantness in his spirit, which carried him sometimes too far into raillery, in which he sometimes shewed more wit than discretion." in the context of "Gilbert Burnet, 'The earl of Clarendon's character' (1683; revised 1705), quoted in H. C. Foxcroft (ed.), A Supplement to Burnet's History of My Own Time; Derived from His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished (1902), p. 53" to mean that wisdom is timeless.