she neither lops off necessaries, nor puts on superfluities: she loses not her own, she usurps not the things of others: but with all industry applies herself to this one thing, that faithfully and wisely treating what is old, she may give accuracy and polish to what has already anciently received its form and beginning, may consolidate and strengthen what has been already expressed and explained, and may keep what has been already confirmed and defined. What else, in fine, did she ever attempt by