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that is, they can judge well of the mode of attaining 

 the end, but ill of the value of the end itself; and 

 hence some men fall in love with access to princes ; 

 others, with popular fame and applause, supposing 

 they are things of great purchase, when, in many 

 cases, they are but matters of envy, peril, and impe 

 diment.&quot; (/) Unmindful of his own doctrine how 

 much &quot; worldly pursuits divert and interrupt the 

 prosecution and advancement of knowledge, like 

 unto the golden ball thrown before Atalanta, which, 

 while she goeth aside and stoopeth to take up, the 

 race is hindered 



Declinat cursus, aurumque volubile tollit.&quot; (g) 



litude of the thoughts and passions of one man to the thoughts 

 and passions of another, whosoever looketh into himself, and 

 considereth what he doth when he does think, opine, reason 

 hope, fear, &c., and upon what grounds ; he shall thereby read 

 and know what are the thoughts and passions of all other men 

 upon the like occasions. I say the similitude of passions, which 

 are the same in all men, desire, fear, hope, &e. ; not the simili 

 tude of the objects of the passions, which are the things desired, 

 feared, hoped, &c. : for these the constitution individual, and 

 particular education do so vary, and they are so easy to be kept 

 from our knowledge, that the characters of man s heart, blotted 

 and confounded as they are, with dissembling, lying, counter 

 feiting, arid erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that 

 searcheth hearts.&quot; 



&quot; Give e en a fool the employment he desires 



And he soon finds the talents it requires.&quot; COWPEII. 

 &quot; As a man thou hast nothing to commend thee to thyself, 

 but that only by which thou art a man, that is by what thou 

 chusest and refusest,&quot; BISHOP TAYLOR. 



(/) Advancement of Learning. Vol. ii. 286. 

 (g} Advancement of Learning. Vol. ii. p. 52 ; and Wisdom 

 of the Ancients, Atalanta. Vol. iii. p. 66. 



