OCR Text |
Show • ·Ofthe .AduancemenfojLea~ning, 1C'.lU1ng &' ~eeld.lng the oth~r t<: the Gr~c~an~;r u re:. lfereimperiopopNlos Romttnememcto,H'£ tJbt erut ttrtes, ~f.folikewifewe fe~that Anjttt~ the accufer.~fSo· crates layd it as an A~uGl~of ch~rge. &.accufauon againn him) that he did ~nh t~e_varJe.ne and P?\V er of. his difcourfe~ a 1d d1fputauon~ Withdraw young · tnen fro1n due reuerence to the Lawes and Cufiomes of tlieir Gountrey: and ~hath~ did profeiTe a dangerous aud pernitious Science, . r~hich \Vas to make the worfe matter feeme ~the better, and t':> fupprelfe truth~by force of eloquence. and fpeeah. But thefe and theJike imputations haue rather ' cou.ntenance of grauit:ie;: than any ground o~ u' fiice: for experience doth warm1nt,that both in perCons and in times, ther.e hath beene a tneeting, and . concurrence in learning and Armes, flourHhing and excelling hi the fame men , and tHe fame age~ For as for tnen, there cannot be a better a or the hke infiance, as of that payre t./.1 lexander the Great, and JuliusCtt.fortheDitlator,whereof the. one was Ari-flo! les So holler in Philofophie,-and.tHe other was ci-ceroes Riuall in eloqu~nce; or if any man ·had ratHer. . call for Schollers )that were great Generals,then Ge .. nerals that were great Schollers; iet hitn take EfJttmi ... n:ondttl$i die Thebane, or X enophon the ~then ian, whereof~the o11e .was tlie firfl.that a.b'ated rhe p0w- · · eli of sparr.a·; and the ether was th-e firft that made wa~to theouerthrowrofdie Monarchie of Perf/a: ·1. And this concurlienae is ¥et~ more :vifible in time' · tlian in-pcrfons, by hOWflllU(h an age is greater ob- : . ·; . ietl ·, V:hejirjl borJit!~ S iet\ thana Man~· ForbothintAgypt, tAfiyria, -Per-jitt ·Grecta . and Rome tile fame times that are mofl ren~ wned for A.rmes, are likewife .mofl: admired for learning ; Co that the great eft Aut.hQrs and Philofo .. phers, and .the greateft Captaine~ and GoU:ernours· .haue liued in t.lie fame ages: neuher can It otherW~ fe be; for as in Man, the tipene[e of firen.gth of the bodie and minde com.meth much about an age) faue that .the firength of ·the~ bodie comtneth · fomewhatthe-more early; So in States, Armes aqd Learning, vv.bereof the one cor~efpondeth to the bodie,theother to the !Oule ofMan~haueaco~cur~ renee or nereieqt~~ce in titnes ' . And for matter of policieand gouem·einenr, that "Learning !houla rather hurt>than inable thereunto• is a thing verie"improbaWe : we fee it is accounted .an er.rour, to comn1it a naturall bodie to Empe- , rique Phifitions, , which co~monly haue a fewe pleafing receits, whereupon t-hey are COJ.?fident and adueniurous , but kno·w neither tQ~ .caufes of difeafes, nor the complexions of Patients, nor peri~l . ·of accidents, nor the true methode of Cures; We fee it: is alike error to rely V·p9fl Adtt<?catesor Lawyers, which are. on ely men of practiCe, and not ground-ed in their Bookes, who are many times ea .. fily furprifed, when matter falleth OUt befides th~ir ~xperience to the preindic~ of.the caufes.they han..dle: fo by like .reafon it cannot be but a: matter of ~o~!~ ~nfeque~~~' if~ate~ ~ee ~rlagEed by. . ~ . - . _mp~ |