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Show The Art of Travelling: 12 The Art of Travel/mg. I; down to the many frivolous Circumllanceswhi‘ch judgment. This difcovery is not to be afcrih'd precifely to the fenfe of feeing, lince this is fuppos'd concur to the difcovery of the politick Spirit of a Court, often happens to pats fuch a ludgmentfias 13 to be alike in all three; therefore the truth of this Judgment mutt be attributed to the quality of his not free from all Objections, or cite his way or expreiiion is lefs clear and intelligible than that of Mind who has the belt notices of the matter. The application of this Comparifon is ealy : Tra- On the contrary, they that aff'efi clearnefs vellers often think they have difcover'd every thing of judgment creep on the ground as itawere, {till following the natural extent of their h'linds which ferves for a Line to direct their Reps; and as with- that palles in a Court, thofe Enterprizes that are yet others. only to be feen at a diftance, and thofc Defigns that Dem what Souls of an interior Rank could never are {till more remote; yet 'tis not pollible that all that make thefe Obfervations {hould have the fame elevation of Mind, and none but fuch as have a very fublime and clear Judgment are capable of fpeakiug accuratly of what they have obferv'd. Hence it is that we fee to many different accounts of foreign Countries, and yet all of 'em publilh'd for truth by have difeover'd; and their extenfion ferves to help their refpeétive Authors; and indeed they may be to render every thing prefent to 'em without eonfulion, became the elevation of their Minds gives {0, but this in proportion to the Charac‘ter of the Minds of thofe who compos'd 7em in their Travels, 'em a profpeét of every thing ; f0 that they fee both according to the Judgment they made of things. dillinétly, and as it were at one View, whatever If I had not read in the account of the Voyage to "Athens the Hiltory of one Hiero: Damaskinos of Ca- out this they could never go direé‘tly to the end they have in view, f0 by the help of it they do.every thing with a becoming Juftnelfs and Deliberation. Happy are they whofe Cenius 15 both f‘ublime and extenlive, for the elevation of their Minds lhews is neceflary to direct 'em to make a right Judg- _ ment. To inculcate this matter the better, it may not be amifs to make ufe of a Comparifona Suppofe three Men walking in the field together difcover an Objeét at a diltance: one of 7em havmglobferv'd it, fays 'tis a Cart going on the top of a Hill; another fuppolbs it to be a Bufh wav'd up and down by the Wind; and the third is conhdent tis a. Manon horfebaek riding againlt the Wind. Now it being naturally impollible for the fame omen to beat once a Cart, 21 Bull], and a Man on horfeback, T15 molt certain that at lealt two ot the three are miltaken in their Judgments; and if one of_ them judges right, it mutt be he that conliders With the greateft force of thought all polhble Motions ot that hObjeét about which he has thought lit to milks d loycro, with whom I had juft fuchanother interview as the Author of that Relation fays happen'd to him, I would here give an account of it at large; but {hall now only add fomething which that "fraveller feems not to have met withal. There were three Gentlemen of different Countries and my felt one day difcourfiug with this illuftrious 011(pr about the Policy of the Turks, which each of us pretended to look upon as barbarous and uncultivatedton purpofe to give him an occafion to fpeak of it after fueh a manner as might give us light into it. He told us he had no skill in Policy either in general, or in the ufe of it among the Turks; and that he made it his bulinefs only to underi'tand and explain the holy. Scripture to his Difciples of Athens: but he faid it 5 3 WC |
