180 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [XVII. 5. 
in private speech it is easy for the greatest orators to 
* want: whilst, by the observing their well- 
De prudentia oraced forms of speech, they leese the volu- 
privat, Dility of application: and therefore it shall 
not be amiss to recommend this to better 
inquiry, not being curious whether we place it here, or in 
that part which concerneth policy. 
6. Now therefore will I descend to the deficiences, 
Colores boni Which (as I said) are but attendances: and 
et mali, first, I do not find the wisdom and diligence | 
simplicis et — of Aristotle well pursued, who began to make 
comparati, 4 collection of _the popular signs and colours _ oe 
f good and eyil,.both simple and comparative, which are. 
as the sophisms of rhetoric (as I touched before). For 
example: 
Sophisma. 
Quod laudatur, bonum: quod -vituperatur, malum, 
Redargutio. 
Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces. 
Malum est, malum est (inqutt emptor) ; sed cum recesserit, 
tum gloriabitur! ‘The defects in the labour of Aristotle 
are three: one, that there be but a few of many ; another, 
that their elenches are not annexed; and the third, that 
he conceived but a part of the use of them: for their use 
is not only in probation, but much more in impression. 
For many forms are equal in signification which are dif- 
fering in impression; as the difference is great in the 
piercing of that which is sharp and that which is flat, 
though the strength of the percussion be the same. For 
there is no man but will be a little more raised by hearing 
it said, Your enemies will be glad of this, 
Hoe Ithacus velit, et magno mercentur Atridaz, 
than by hearing it said only, Zhzs 7s evil for you. 
