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Show ll- ‘1‘75'5 Art of Travel/Mg. _‘ 1713 AI'A Qf‘ Trove/12.773 we would addicts our {elves to the Turks, as to the IS Viivadc of Athens, or any other Perfon of Note, 4 ment; that is It0 fay, firth a meafure of both, as the;~ would be hrs to give us l'atisfafiion in thofe mat crs. perplex and confound the Minds of other Men, nor i remember I was the only Perfon in the company tha Cl uld not be perlwadcd that this Cally/er was born with a fumble difpolition. * ' inted with l'olitichs. A very ingenious P0liought he was too much devoted to the Rudy cripture to have any great matter of skill ' ' , A German that was of our com - rim for a Perfon only vers'd in the No- o h- Schoohnten, and capable of criticizing on the holy Scripture: an Italian that was with us maintain'd that as he was one of that remnant of Greeks who feem to he the Polterity of the Peafants of former tiz'nes ', he had not fubtilty of mind enough to penetrate into {inch Poiiticks as were as "zurdenfom to ‘em as they appear‘d violent and Du: _ :‘calbnable. Ue puflfd our Curiofity yet further, and by good hack a Sangiac who was upon his return from Candie :e the Port, and pafs'd through Atbcm, was {0 kind as to inform us of nanny things we had a mind to may dilpofe things ifl‘ff') much order that they don‘t produce any thing; in "em but Light. And this Qualification is noc to be acquir'd if a Man is not It can't be well ex- plain'd but by Pi‘aEtice -, however, to give fome Idea of it, it feems to me to confilt in three things: Firll, In laying the ltrefs of one's judfinient on that which makes the lealt appearance in an Intrigue or Negotiation; for Policy being the Academy of Dill guife, and an exercife of Craft and Subtilty, generally that which appears lealt in a politick Obl‘crvation may pafs for the molt real and true part of it. Secondly, In never counting any thing Iiilli- ciently explainfl to determine one's mind about it, that 12) the unexpected founding of fome Circum- ftance or other, that does not {cent to be thought of, may give one a difcovery of fomewhat of which the h'liniltry of a Court perhaps is not aware. And fo much the more in as much as fpeculative Policy being fuppos‘d impenetrable, and not beginning to And at Ialt, after many earnelt appear till iris going to be put in execution, ‘tis in the Circuml'tances of the Execution that you are to feel" the certain difcovery ofthe Delign. 'I‘hirdly, In the oppoiition of one thing to another -, tor altlio the means cmploy'd in any particular politiczt Delign may be ahfolutely alter'd from one day t) Sollicitations, we cngag'd this learned Calnycr to [site another, becar: 15,7: there‘s no Medium always eilbntiil off the Iilasit, and thew us that he was under iitcli a to and inleparuble from Policy, yet ‘tis certain, con- know; and among, other things told us there was n Man in the \Vorld knew more of thofe matters Eliufl this Grecian. It may ealily be imagin'd I head :12}: felt for iigre differently of this Man from the refit of the company. ferion ciiguife or Simplicity as would have deceiv‘d ‘ anti l)‘;'.‘~‘,‘if.. liclerine,‘ imzv Men. are made, that 'tis probable the Council of" a l'rince don't alter their common No‘ from this Digireflion', I fay, to lildg". ill first prelbnts and {trikes the Imagination a 'gz‘avclling, into foreign Parts, whether i... .341 it conceit; Religion, Morals or l'oliticlts, there: need of ‘C-tgtl‘: elevation and chirarnefs in, the Inflal. 313;; 2, tions, not taiaeup Relblutionsis contradictory one to another as Black to \Nhite: and therefore the Ulig‘rolition an intelligent Traveller dilicovers in the Alli-hrs on which he is making; obl‘ervation, ought E') li‘ilipenzl his; inclement, and to oblige lnni to hm :, .1. liifijfi |