Strachey

 He is a very good writer:

"The members of the English Church had ingenuously imagined up to that moment that it was possible to contain, in a frame of words, the subtle essence of their complicated doctrinal system, involving the mysteries of the Eternal and the Infinite on the one hand, and the elaborate adjustments of temporal government on the other. They did not understand that verbal definitions in such a case will only perform their functions so long as there is no dispute about the matters which they are intended to define: that is to say, so long as there is no need for them. For generations this had been the case with the Thirty-nine Articles. Their drift was clear enough; and nobody bothered over their exact meaning. But directly someone found it important to give them a new and untraditional interpretation, it appeared that they were a mass of ambiguity, and might be twisted into meaning very nearly anything that anybody liked."

Eminent Victorians (p. 12). Kindle Edition. 

Choice of vocabulary is excellent. There is a wit to it, as well, a particular kind of humor. The sentences are long and stately, but with some relief in the brief phrases: "Their drift was clear enough..." 

I'm by no means interested in the subject matter here, except as it reflects a keen appreciation for the limits of language and interpretation.