l8o OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [XVIII. 5. 



in private speech it is easy for the greatest orators to 

 want: whilst, by the observing their well- 



Deprndentia ^^ forms Qf ^ ^ 



sermonts 



privati. blll ty 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 mail, first, I do not find the wisdom and diligence 

 simplids et o f Aristotle well pursued, who began to make 

 comparati. a co n ec tion of the popular signs and colours 

 of good and evil, both simple and comparative, which are 

 as the sophisms of rhetoric (as I touched before). For 

 example : 



Sopkisma. 

 Quod laudatur, bonum: quod vituperatur, malum. 



Redargutio. 

 Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces. 



Malum est, malum est (inquit emptor) ; sed cum recesserit, 

 turn gloriabitur ! The defects in the labour of Aristotle 

 are three : one, that there be but a few of many ; another, 

 that their clenches 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, 



Hoc Ithacus velit, et magno mercentur Atridz, 



than by hearing it said only, This is evil for you. 



