What especially distinguishes him from the literary point of view is his almost unique faculty of Diversifying dry and technical argument with outbursts of rhetoric.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
I remarked that, instead of going to see his fountains, and Diversifying his walk as usual, he did nothing but walk up and down by the balustrade of the orangery, whence he could see, in returning towards the chateau, the lodging in which Louvois had just died, and towards which he unceasingly looked.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 10 And His Court and of The Regency"
Duc de Saint-Simon
They lived precisely as the beasts in the jungle live-Diversifying their periods of torpor with bursts of frantic vituperation and syncopating enjoyment.
"Command"
William McFee