inception is continually evacuated and gets no start, but there behoveth perpetua inceptio, as in the common fourme. Non progredi, est regredi, Qui non proficit, deficit: Running against the hill: Rowing against the streame, &c. For if it be with the streame or with the hill, then the degree of inception is more then all the rest. Fourthly, this couler is to be understoode of gradus inceptionis à potentia, ad actum comparatus; cum gradu ab actu ad incrementum: For otherwise], maior videtur gradus ab impotentia ad potentiam, quàm a potentia ad actum. FINIS. Printed at London by Iohn Windet 1597. APPENDIX ESSAIES OF STUDIES CAP: I TUDIES serue for pastimes, for ornaments, Sur Dififise, the fir cheite vse for pastimes is in privatenes, and retiring: for ornaments, in discourse; and for ability in Iudgement: for expert men can execute, but learned are men more fit to Iudge, and censure: to spende to much time in them is sloth: to vse them to much for ornament is affectation: to make Iudgement wholely by their rules is the humor of a scholler: they perfect nature, and are themselues perfected by experience: crafty men contemne them, wise men vse them, simple men admire them. for they teache not their owne vse, but that there is a wisdome wthout them, and aboue them wonne by observation: Reade not to contradict, nor to beleeue, but to weigh, and consider. Some bookes are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some fewe to be chewed, and disgested: that is some are to be reade onely in partes, others to be reade but curiously, and some fewe to be reade wholely wth diligence, and attention. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready, and writing an exact man: therefore if a man write litle he had neede of a greate memory; if he confer litle, he had neede of a present wit, and if he reade litle, he had neede haue much cunning to seeme to knowe that he doth not knowe: Histories make men wise; Poets witty: the Mathematiques subtile; Naturall Philosophie deepe: Morall graue: Logique, and Rethorique able to contende. * Curserely OF DISCOURSE CAP: 2 OME in their discourse desire rather com mendation of wit, in being able to holde all arguments, then of Iudgement in discerning what is true: as if it were a praise to knowe what might be saide, and not what should be thought: some haue certaine common places, and theames, wherein they are good, and want variety: wch kinde of Poverty is for the most parte tedious, and now, and then ridiculous: the honorablest parte of talke is to giue the occasion, and againe to moderate, and passe to somewhat else: It is good to vary, and mixe speache of the present occasion wth arguments; tales wth reasons: asking of questions wth telling of opinions and lest wth earnest; but some thinges are priviledged from Iest, namely, Religion, matters of state, greate persons, all mens present busines of Importaunce, and any case that deserveth pitty: He that questioneth much, shall learne much, and content much, especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the party of whom he asketh: for he shall giue them occa |