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Show · ·Of the Adu;nceinent ofLearning; . rpeakdth!t:>£• ~ uidA~ .r,jm Junt vmbr a tile!, vt p.tite~t tn tarbirln./fo, qnic q ued zn leueef! ; and n?t of learnmg ; wd may it b.e ,th~t fuch a pomt ~fa man~ n.~mre may make him gtue ntmfelfe ~0 learn.tng.,o\.1~ lt lS not leflr ~ ning that tJreed~th any {uc~ potnt In hts NatUre~ - · And that learning 11\ould take vp too mucH tune orr leafitre, I arifwere, the moft attiue ot liufte man . d1a~ hath been or can bee, hath (no.:qtieftion) many , :vacant times of leafttre, \vhile he expetteth the tides ·. and returnes of bufinetfe(except he be eit1ier- tedi .. ·Ous, and bf no difpatch, or -lightly .and vnworthily ' ·ambitious, tO meddle in thinges that may oe better 1d9ne b~ otlie~s) and then the queflion is, b~t how ·tbofe fpaces and times of leafilre lh~ll be fille~ arid .fper.n: wliether in pleafitres,-or in fiudics; as \tv as wel anfwered by Demojlhenes to his aduerfarie vf.'f. chynes, that was a rt1at1 giuen ·tO pleafure, ·and told ibim, Tihat his OrtttionJ did jme/1 of the Lampe: 1 ndeeqe (fayd mn:oJfheneJ) there is a great difJtrence hetweene , thtthinges that yo11 a11d I doe by Lampe-light: [o as rio ~an ~eede doubt,·that learning will expulfe bufi~ ne~e, btu ratne~ it will keepe aoo defend the pofsef.. · fi?n~ft~e tnind agai~llidleneffe ~nd pleaft1reswhich · ~t~er:wtf~,.at vnawares·, may ent~rto the preiudic.~ ,.of 5oth. . · ~' "Agairi~,lOr that otne.r. conceit,that learning fhould vnd~r~~~~ the reu~r~n~e of Lawes and gouerne· l)len~~ .It ~s a.lTur~dty a,. me~re .deprau·atton and c~ ... lu~ny w~thOut all fhado~e of truth.: for to (ay th*t ~Blind c\,U\ome ofobeau:nce n-,oula be a furer ( j() .. ~ . ; -- ~ , · ligation , ~ke ftrfl 'Boo~.'. · n ligation1 than dntie taught and vnderftood· it is to . affirme th.at a· blind man may. tread fur~r by' a guide,' - ,. t.Qan a. feetng man can by a hght: and tt is without all controuerG~, that learning doth make the minds · ' ' ·of men gentle' ge,nerous, maniable, and pliant. to .. gpu~rnment;whereas Ignorance makes them chtir .. bfh,th\v.art,and mqtinous; and the euidence oftime . d9th cleare this aiTertion, confidering that the mofi l;>;trbarous, rude, and vnlearned times haue be.ene m._ofi fubieCl: to t~unults, feditions,and ~hanges. . . And as to the 1udgen1ent of Cat() the Cenlor he .· ~as vyell punilhed~ for his blafphemie againll: l~arO! ng tn the fan1e ktnde wherein hee offended; for. when ~ewas paft threefcore yeeres old, he wasta~ ke~ wnh an extreame defire to goe to Schoole a• g~tne, and to lea.rne the (~reeke to~gue, to the end.: to per.ufe the. Greeke Authors; which doth well de ... moo{t.~ate, t.har his former cenfiJre of the Greciaa; Lear~tng, was. rather an a[ec1cd gra.uitie; than ac-cordtng, tot~et.~\vard fence of his own~. opinion.; ~nd as for VtrgtLs veries, though it pleafed hitn to braue't~ e world in ~aking to the l"ton1anes_, the A.rt" efEmptre ;and leautng to others the arts offubieets· yet fo. nlU<!h is n1anifefi, that the Romanes' netii.r ai. cef.tde_d to that height ~tEmp ire, till .the :tirne .iheyij: ~ad afcended·to the hetght of other Arts ·: For in the· tune of .the .tvvo firft C.£fors, which had the art of~ goue~netne tin great eft perfeCtion, there iit1ed the· b.~fi Po.e~ · V~1;~ili~s Mar~, the: heft ijjfiQr!ograp'{~.t · TJI.HS Lttttle!, ~~ ~~ft f\nuq~arle ldttrcu.s Y~r~.q~' .~~(J'' . · • ~ (...; ·4.: :-. ~~he:· ' |