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Show - • Ofthe AdtU»c.tJnetJ.t ofLe~rning, . , • 01.1ntrt'f1 0~ MaifiersJ)ef6re thetr owne for~ :~s 'es F.orfo&yth Demojlhenes vnto. the Athenians, lfiit plufi JfJJI 10 note it, my co•nfcls vn: o • yos are nor Ji1ch, whereby I jhot1ld grow g_re11t amo»ift J.#N;andJJJUfhecomelitlle amP.ngft ~hcG.rcltafl) :Jjut t l.'ey . he of that nittUrl as they ttrefomettmes n,ot good for me to giue hut are 11lwAi(s rtood for you to fol/otv. And fo Sene- CA afier he had co~fecrat~d ~hat fl!t#nqRennium N e~ rims to the eternall glorte of learne.d-· Gouernor~, hekl on his honeft and loyall £ourfe of pd and iec Counfell, after ~is Maillet gre\V ext~eam~Iy corrupt in hisgouernme_n~; neither can this rotnt aher.wife be: for learn1ng endueth men5 m1ndes wi~h a mue fence of the frail tie of their. perfons, the .cafnaltie of.their fortunes·, and the dignitieof.their lOuie and vocation; fo that it is impofsible for· them ·to eae~me . that any greatnelfe of their owrie for ·tune can bee, atrueorworthy,end of their being and ordainment; and therefore are delirous to giue theiraccounttoGod,andfo likewife to their Mai. fter,s vnder .God (as Kinges an~ the States that t ey f-eme) in thefewords; Ecce tihi,/ucrefeci,and not Ecce mihilucrtfeci: whereas the corrupter .fort ~f me ere Politiques, that haue not their thoughts efiabliilied by learning in the loue a~d apprehenfion of du. tie, nor n~uer looke abroad. into vniuerfalitie; doe referr.e all thinges to themfelues, and thrufi themfel .es into the Center Qf the world, as if all times fu~1W meet in them and their fortunes; neuer ca .. ring in aU telllPefts what becoms of the iliippe of · Eftates, The .ftrfl r3oo~. ; 11 Ellat~s, fo they may faue them(elues in the Cocke-' boar of their owne fortune, whereas men that feele· the weight of dutie, -and know the lim.~ts of felfe; to~e,vfe~o make~ood theirpl~ces &.~ittirs,though wnh pertH·. And 1f they Hand tn fedtnous and violent alterations ; it is rather the reuerenc~ which tn:n1y times both aduerfe parts doe gitie to honefiie •. than any v_erfat~le aduamage of their owne carriage. But for thts potnt of tender fence, and faft obligation of dutie, which learning doth endue the min de: ~ithall, howfoeu~r fortune may t~xe it, and many tnt he depth of the1r corrupt prtnctples may defpifo it, yet it will receiu~ an open allowance) and there·. fore needes the le[e difproofe .or excufation. . .Another fault incident commonly to learned tnen, whi~h may be. ~ore probably defended, than . tru~1y denyed~ 1s; that rqeyfMJte fometimes in ap.; ply1ng tl)etnfeltts to particular perfons, which want_ of exatt application arifeth frotn two · caufes : The· one)becttuie the largenelfe of their minde can hard .. ly confine it felfe to dwell in the exquifite obferua .. · tion or exatn.ination of the nature and cufiomes of· E>~e perfon: for "it is a fpeechfora Louer, and for a. Wt(e man :Sat is magnum. alter alteri T heatrum fom,u: Neuc:rthel~lfe I !hall yeeld, that he that cannot con-' t~a6t t~e .fight of his min de, afwell as difper.le and~ dtlate lt, Wa~tetq a great facu1tie. ~Ut ~ere is a fe ... . ~ond caufe, which is no inabilitie; but a r.eietlion·, vpon chpi(e and iudg.ement. For the honeft and i~ft: bou1:_1d~ <?[ ob(e!~~!!on, by one perfoQ vpon an~ D. 4: ---·- thet;. ... . _ " - ,I |
