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Show . Of the AjiTMtn~NilV1! of Le~rn~ng; . Ill! ti andrJnfercnds, agatnil r.eihmonte ; atld Coltmie: :}t.flll.Ci&ero Jii~{dfe, b~mg ~roken VntO • icqy~:Cxperience,deltuereth· tt platnely; That , atfocuer· a; man IhalLqaue oc~afion to rp.eake of, . . -:(if bee will· take·the'paine~) h~ may bane lt tn eff,ea ' . premeditate, and handled tn there. So that w~en bee cotnmeth ~o a particular, he ili_all haue nothmg .," dG~,:bitt io.put too Namos; and tln~es_,and places; ·andfuclrotbaCi~:c_umftances oflndnuduals. We fee ~Wif1: the exaa diligence of Dem~f!henes) wh~ in·tegartiof.the great' force, that the e~trance .~nd cc[e ·iato caufes-hath tQ ~ake a good 11nprefs1o~; .. ·~hadi1.eadieframeda number of PrefAces for Orau. onsandSpecches. All which Aut~~ties and Pre~ · idents mayou~r--way.Arijlot/es optnion,t.hat ~ould .. ltaue ·vs.chatmg~ a rich Wardrobe) for a pa1re of ~llearei. · . . · · f h. ;t:. . BUttheNamre.oftheColle&ion o t 1s Prout;~· IJtJ:or Pr~p.~~r~torie jlort, though it b.e common, bot~ to togicke,.and ~het~~rick~; yet hautng made an en: !rY:c Of it heere~ where lt came firft to be fpok:n of,. " I thinke fitte to referrc oucr the further handbng of it to Rhetoricke. · . ThcotherpartofiNv ~NT } 'O N,whi~hl terme S 'M'fJ G B s T x.o N', dothafstgneanddtre~vsto cen:aine Markes ;or Places, which may exctte our .Minile tQretwneaQd produce fuch Knowledge, as_ it Ill It •rinerly ~®llctt~ : to the end wee ma.y . m•keJyfe t~reof Nei~lleristhis vfe (truelytaken). · · ·!Jil~Y to·~~. argument, to difpute pro~!6 . .. - ' . _rrh_eficond 'Boo~- .. · 53 ers ; But Iikewile to M'iniller \1nto our ......., .. ... t<;> conclude aright Within ·our felu es. tn~y thefe places fer~e on ely to apprompr tto~; ?~u alfo ro ~tre.cl our enquirie. For -~- ·"· vr.:1fe Inter~ogaung ts halfe a knowledge; N"Tf611ofatth;tVhojoeuer feeketh,knoweth that whi,·h for ,in a genertt/11\' otion; Elfe how (hall ht know b4fh found it? An? therfore the larger your BMlrHm Is, the more dtrea and compendious is But the fame P!ttces which will help vs produce, of tl1at which we kno\v alreadie . helpe vs, if a tnan of experience were be~ mw;harquefiionsto aske;or if we haue Bookes ,&. .......... , . ....... tO inflrutt vs what points to fearch and f<? as I cannot report,that this part of Inuenh is that which the Schooles call T opiques, eJes T opiqu~s are of 2. forts gtneral &jjeci~ . raUwe hauefpoke to; but the ~articular touched byfome.,bnt reietled generally,as variable. But leauing the hun1or which ed too much in tHe Schooles (which is to tile ina fe\v thinges, which are within Bln.lm"!!.t''" ,and to reieet the refi) I doe receiue r..opiqNes, that is places or diretlions of lnquirie in eilery particular knowledg, 9reat vfe; being t\IJixtures of L~o-iqtJt atter of sciences: for in thefe it holdedu rt·mltna,· adot~(cit cr~m InuentiJ : for as in gQ· , wee doe not onely-gaine that part 0 o cf ( |