ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. CXX1 



Such is the outline : within it the work is minutely ar 

 ranged, () abounds with great felicity of expression, and 

 nervous language: but not contenting himself, by such 

 arrangement, with the mere exhibition of truth, he adorned 



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it with familiar, simple, and splendid imagery. (6) 



(a) The arrangement of the work may be thus generally exhibited : 



I. The excellence of Learning, and its communication. 



fl. By divines. 

 1. Objections to learning. { 2. By politicians. 



L3. From errors of learned men. 



-2. Proofs of advantages of learning. &amp;lt; &quot; 



II. What has been done and what omitted. 



{1. Universities. 



{2. Libraries. 

 3. Persons of the learned. 



Divine. 

 Human. 



fl. History. 

 i. ] 2. Poetry. fl. 



1 3. Philosophy. { 2. 

 L3. 



Division, -j 2. Poetry. J&quot;l. Natural religion. 



Natural philosophy. 

 Human philosophy. 



(6) Disapproving of the manner of the stoics, who laboured to thrust 

 virtue upon men by concise and sharp sentences and conclusions, which 

 have no sympathy with the imagination and will, he in this work avails 

 himself of every opportunity to reduce intellectual to sensible things. 

 &quot; That which is addressed to the senses,&quot; he says, &quot; strikes more forcibly 

 than that which is addressed to the intellect. The image of a huntsman 

 pursuing a hare; or an apothecary putting his boxes in order; or a man 

 making a speech ; or a boy reciting verses by heart ; or an actor upon the 

 stage, are more easily remembered than the notions of invention, disposi 

 tion, elocution, memory, and action.&quot; This work abounds, therefore, with 

 ornament. 



So, Shakespeare, in one of his sonnets, says : 



&quot; Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind, 



And that which governs me to go about 



Doth part his function, and is partly blind, 



Seems seeing, but effectually is out ; 



For it no form delivers to the heart 



Of bird, of flower, or shape, which it doth latch ; 



