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Show The Art of Traveling. The Art of Tram/ling. Travellers learn more than others, tho perhaps they are l'erfons of like Ability and Curiolity. And if reilorc the other. a'l‘was this that made the late 23 I may be permitted to add my Opinion, I 111311 not fcruple to fay, that a Man ought to travel at feveral times and occalions to the fame Court, to be well alliir'd of Improvement, and that he has penetrated 29 Elec'tor Palatine flay, That Mm is 4/00! that goo: our of his onm Country without hopes of returning Wit/J more Honor, Wifdom and Know/orig than what he carried abroad. This difpolition being fiippos'd will be followed by another, and that is, that a wile Traveller will into the Maxims and Conduit of it. Let any one judg after this, whether Impatience is never return undetermin'd in his Mind, as M was not an invincible Obltacle to Curiolity, and how when he went out: But fully convinc‘d what is the great a difadvantage they mult be under, whole too greatelt and moit folid Advantage, with which he great Vivacitv precipitates 'em, and whoie warm Temper expoies 'em rather to the Cenl'ure than has had the addrefs to form his Mind in proportion procures 'em the Confidence of foreign Nations. "Tis {till much worle when a Man has not inch 3 politick undeterminkl polture of Mind as to act with impartiality, and not to {new any preiudice or a {treng inclination to the Maxims of his own Country on the one hand, and on the other hand an indilference forthofe of others. And this being the great and indeed the original fault that Men carry into other Countries, one can't too much atgue againl‘t it, and lhew the danger of it. Univerfal Reafon, which is the foundation of Policy, directs that a Man of Honor part from his own Country undeterminfl in his Mind, that is, {0 difpos'd to learn of all Men according to the forementiond Paliage of the wife Man'7 Bond cm'm ('1' main cx hominihas tcmahir', He flaall try what 1'»: good and evil among [Hm .~ That he may appear docile to every Man, and receive any one courteoully who is willing to give him any Information. 'Tis not to the Capacity he has had of calling abundance of dill'ering matters together, only to extract out of 'em what might contribute to his improvement in Knowledg. This temper of Mind is more ealily fpoken of than found, for the Mind mult be moulded after an extraordinary manner to be capable of that docility which places a Man at the feet of others to . learn their Inltruftions 3 and 'tis next to a Miracle to find a Genius of this Charaenrer, which is Md and folid enough to come to a determination in the midil: of fuch a prodigious number of Maxims which all relhlt from Reafon as their Principle, tho the Eii‘eéts they produce appear to oppolite one to 'another. And again there is danger lelt this docility with which a Man prepares himfelf in going abroad, lhould degenerate into Irrefolution, Iialincfs, and fervile Complaifance at his return. That which is to be feen in the greatelt part of rhofe who are willing to make too deep and prying a fearch into only ufelefs but dangerous to travel without this difpofition; for the diverfity of Minds one meets with being the only remedy againit Prejudice, an incozfllerate and heady Traveller often ruins his Health, as well as corrupts his ReafOn, by every matters of Religion in prejudice to the eltablilh'd Syltems, who often by their too curious Enquiries thing which might otherwife improve the one and ble in appearance, but, weak in reality, fo that by reltore are brought at lalt to fit Ioofe from all Religion, anil die in this irrefolution of Mind, often happens to thofe middle-witted Perfons whofe Minds are tractaT 3 tilt? I -. Miami" i 40.an we in 1-1 W - 0" I |