166 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



Bother These informations of particulars, touching persons 

 md actions Se as the minor propositions in every active 

 svlloSsm fo^no excellency of observations (which are as 

 the Sar propositions) can suffice to. ground a conclusion, 

 Xthere be error and mistaking in the minors. 



nS That this knowledge is possible, Solomon is our surety, 



itself fflleth not under precept because it is of individuals, yet 



&quot; according 



SSSSfis 



he saith, &quot; That in other things he was velut eluc- 

 vum- &quot; but then again, solutius loquebatur quando 



SoThat there is no such artificer of dissimulation, 

 nor ^o such commanded countenance (vultus jussus) that can 

 sever fioiS a ^ed tale some of these fashions, either a more 

 Sit and careless fashion, or more set and formal or more 

 tedious and wandering, or coming from a man more drily and 



hWf ^ Neither are deeds such assured pledges as that they 

 may trSted ^without a judicious consideration of their mag- 



thrhe was wont to be without manifest cause. For smaU 

 favour? tTey do but lull men to sleep, both as to caution and 

 lavours, tney ao u Demosthenes caUeth them, Ali- 



So again we see how false the nature of some 



