72 



THE APVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



such 



second lives, and the third . 

 although the first be the most 

 history, and hath most ^f 



excelleth %^ g^_ a ^ ffis 

 sincerity. For k istorv | T f ~ 

 of actions, and the public tace B 

 ^d passed ^r i 



men and matters 



as He doth hang the 



maxima I ^^ 



such histories 



true and 



written, 



whom actions, both 



have a commixture, must 



native, and lively ^S 



relations of actions, the 



of Cyrus Minor the , cons P 



purely and exactly true tha ^ 



may choose an f argument 



instructions of the writer 



the gecond 



third in verity and 

 enteth the magnitude 

 deportments of persons, 

 &quot; d motions o f 



^ Qf ^ 

 ^^ ^^ 



that 



, if they be well 

 a person to represent, in 

 public and private, 

 contain a more true, 

 narrat i on s and 

 the edition 

 cannot but he more 

 of times, because they 

 thin the notice and 

 undertaketh th 



t hut meet with 



an U P out 



world for arms, 



, 



and the state 



of his own wit and conjecture. ^ ^^ history, the 



(6) For the history of ^imes 1 ^^^ For it hath 

 providence of ^ J^^? atrat e ^ exempl sta tes of the 



policy, and laws ; me 

 ; the histories whereof 

 ore ancient to them 



---*&amp;lt; ~ T mav bv one common name be termed the 

 histories which may ^ d after them, histories which may 



in good perfection Not bxit ico ^ ^ phil ie n 



course of history -for Og* drowned and extinguished in 



