Sentence:  I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this attempt, according to my desire: yet I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some <WSD>sort</WSD> I may be allow'd to have copied the Clearness, the Purity, the Easiness and the Magnificence of his stile. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Manner; form of being or acting.