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Show Oj thc.aduanC7ment if learning, thefe threcfalfe. appearances,. I finde altogether deficient ·. · . f 1 d· f · There retn.ayneth one part~ o u geme.?t ~ . reat excellencie, whi~h to mtne vnd.eri.tan~ng ts . ~ fleightly touc~ed, as I ~ay~ repone tha~ a\1~ de. ficient, which ts the apphca.uon. of t~e dtffer~nge: I .. kind.es of Proofes, to the dl'ffer1ng k~ndes of Sub. · ieas : for there beeiog but fo_ure . kt~d es of de-. monfirations' that is by the tmmed~ate conf ent of the Minde or s,nce ;. by .Indt~Elton; by ~o~. phifme; and by congruitie, wht~h ts that which; U!rijlotle calleth TJ(monjlrat~on tn Orbe, .or Ctrcle, and not a N otioribU& , euerte o~ thefe ~ath c~r. · . taine Subieels in the Matter of Sciences~ tn vyhtch refpeCliuely t~~ey haue c~iefeft vfe; and· certatne O· . ther, from whtchreipeamely t~eX ?ug~tto b~ ~x· · ·eluded·, and· the rigour, afld ~uri<?dUe, 1? rcq,.unng: · the more feu ere Proofes tn fome thtnges, and· ·ch.iefely the fa~ilitie tn: con~enting our felues with . the more remdfe Proofes~ tn others, . hath beene amongeft the greateft caufes of detrym.ent .and~ hinderance to. Knowledge. Th·e d1ftnb~tuons and af~ignations of demonflr~tions, accordtn& t?' t]).,. Ana/a .. the Analogie· Qf Scieoces, I not.e as denct· ; : en~ · · ;~Demon- ... .. riftlfJI'JNm. · . · · · · -? The Cuflodie or retayning of Knowledge;. it either in WRITING or MEM 0 RI E; where .. of W· R I .T .I N G E .ba~h twoo parte~ ; The Na· ue oft.b~ CHAR.AClu.,and the orderoft~e ' E ~T Rl~): ,... . The ftcond 'Boo~. 58 · t for the Art of char,E/er.s, or other v.ifiotes of 'A'ordes or thinges, it hath neereft ation with Gramtnar, and therefore I referr.e due place ; for the Di(jofitton and Colloofthat Knowledge which wee pre{erue .in ' mmre; ltconGfteth in a good Digeft of Common , wherein I an1 not ignorant of the preiu .. imputed to t~e v!e. o.f. . CP~tn.on-P/4_ce Bookes, fing a retardation of Reading , · arid fome relaxation of Memorie. But becaufe it is cotlnterf~it thing in Know ledges to be lorand pregnant, f:Xcept a man bee deepe and d the Entrie of Common places, to bee of great vfe and eifence in fiudying; as ich atfuretb copie oflnuention)and contra· .... ~-·----ent to a ftrength. But this is true, that ethodtJ of CommtJnplaces, that I haue feen, none of any fufficient \voorth, all of them tneerely the face of a Schoo!e, and not of , . ~nd referring to vulgar matters,and PeDiuifions without all life, or rcfpea to · other Principall Parte of the Cuflodie edge, which isM EM OR 1 E; ·1 finde that in ·tny ludgement weakely enquired of ; · tber.e is extant of it; But it feemeth to me are better Precepts, than that Art; and ,.11\ft .. "'... es of that Art, than thofe receiued. It the i\rt(as it is)may bee rayfedto points ---·-" prodigious: But in vCe (as it is nowe P p 1. mannagedJ. |