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Show \ - /. ' TheLifeoftheiionotua~~~~utho! .. __ ---' e one ar·fter another ; And everv year altret!, , and amended, 'J ar, "J • J · I d I 1 · I in the Frame thereof; '(ill, at !aft, zt ca;ue tot Jat -~o e , tn whith it waJ committed to the Prelfe:AJ 111any Ltv1ng Creai rures, do lic/ttheir young ones, till they bring them> to their firength ofLimms. . . l1z the Compofng, of !JiJ Books, he dul rather ~nve> dt a . MafcHline, and clear, E%preffion, thatz at an~ Ftnenes, o)~ AffeCtation, ofPhrafes: And would often aJ/t, if the Meaning were expreffed, plainly enough : AJ being one, 1ba1 ac ... counted '~ords ,. to be but fubfervient, or Minifi:criall, to Matter ; Andnol 11Je Principall. And if hiJ Stile were . Poltte, it wa..rbecauje he cosdd do nootl~erwife. Neither waJ . he given ,' to atJ.y Light Conceits ; Or Defcanting 11pon : Words ; But did ever , purpofely, and induflrioufly, avoyd : the11~ :; For he held Jucb Things~ to be but Digreffions, or Diverfions, from tiJe Scope intended; And to derogate,from the Weight, a11d Dignity, of the S tHe. . l-Ie waJ no Plodder upon Books; Though he read much; And . th~tt, :~vith great Judgentellt, and R..ejeelion of' Impertinenr.rJ, incident to many Authours : For he would ever iJtterlace, a Moderate Relaxation, oj'HiJ Minde, witb biJ Studies; · AJ Walking ; Or Taking the A ire abroad in his Coach ; or Jome other befitting Recreation = . .And yet, he wo~ld loofe no 1·imc) In aJ much, aJ upon hiJ Fufi, and Itnmedtate Return, he would fall to Reading again: A11d fo fltjfer, no Momento[ Tirne, to Slip front him, without fome prefont Itnprovenlent. His Meales, nere Refections, of the Eare, 4J r;r>ell aJ of the Stomack: Li~ the Nocres Attic~; or Convivia Deipno- Sophifiarum; Wherein, a M4n might be·refrejhed, in hiJ Min de, andunderfianding, tto leffo, then in hi1 Body. A1zd I have ltnown.fome, of no 111ean P ttrtJ, that bave profoiJed, to ma~ ufe, of their Note-Books, when th~y have rife~t, fr()ln hiJ Table. In which Converfations, 4nd otherwife, be »JtlJ no Dafoing M4n; AJ Jome Men are; B1~t ever, a Countenan- cer, and Fofierer, ofttnother ManJ Parts. Neither was he one, that fi10Hld appropriate the Speech, wholy to Him- l felf; J "fheLife ofche Honourabie Author. felf; <Jr delight to mtt- vie ~ther J ; B11t leaq;e_a Liberty, to the Co-Affeifours, to ta~ thetr Turns. Wherezn he wo;,/d draw a Man on, and allure him, to Jpea/z upo" fuch a S1~:!jeCl, aJ wherein be waJ peculiarly Skilfull , and would deligbt to fpea~ And, for Hi11ifelf, he coJttemned no ManJ Ohfervations; But wonldlight hiJ Torch, at every ManJ Candle. HiJ Opinions, and Aifertions, were, for the moft part, Binding ; And not contradzCied, by any:Rfth~r li~ Oracles, then Difcourfes. Which ntay be imputed, ezt'her to the well weighi1zg of hiJ Sentence, by the Sktzle.r,.ofT ~uth, and ~ea ~ [on; Or elfo, to the Reverence, and Efiunatton, wheretn he wa.r, commoNly, had, that no Man. would contefi with him So thttt there waJno Argumentation, or Pro and Con, (aJ th1y ter~ it,) ~t hiJ Table: ~r if their chanced, to ~e a11y, it wtuCarried with much Subm11Iton, .1ndModeratton. I have oft;n obferved; And Jo have other frlen, ojgreat Account; I'hat ifh~ bad occaflon, to repeat, ~notber ManJ ~or dB, after IJi111; be had an ufe, and F ~tculty, to drejfo them, tn better Vefl:ments, and Apparell, then they had before: So that, the Authour, jhould finde IJiJ own Spe~ch much a"/e~ded; And yet the Subfiance, of it, flill r.etatned. A_J if, tt had bee~ Naturall to bi1tt, to ufegocdFonns ; A.r Ovtdfpa~, ofhtJ Faculty, ofVcdifying; . Et quod.tent•bam Scribere, Verfus c.rat. When hiJ Office called him, aJ he r:vaJ of the K1ngs Counfell Learned, to charge any Offenders~ either in C~imin~ls, orCa pitals; He 'tllaJ 1tever ofan Infulting, nr Domtneenng Nature over them; But alwayeJtender Hearted, and carrying him]e~fdecentlytowardJ tbe Parties; (Though it WaJ hiJ Duty, to charge them hom~:) Bul yet~ etJ oue, that loo~.d 1epon the Exan1pl~, with the EyeofSeventy; ..B ut upon ~he ~e.t- ~ fon, with the Ey(, lif'Pitty, and Cumpaj]ton. .And tn Ctv11l Bufine{(e, aJ he wa-1 Counfeller (}f Efrate, be had the_beji way 6f AdviGog; Not engaging hiJ Mafrer, in any Prect.I?ttate1 or grievous, CourfeJ'; But in Modera.te.' all~ Fat~, Proceeding.t: The King,. whom he ferrzJed, gt'lJtNg, hun ~hu T effimony ; That he ever dealt, is. Bufineffi, S.uavt~su . ( c ~ ) ModtJ |
