CHAP. 1II.J EXAMPLES OF ANTITIJETA. l i7 



Tlie mind is best regulated by I like not such men as are wholly 



the predominancy oi some power- taken up with one thing-, 

 ful affection. Love is but a narrow conteni- 



He who is wise will pursue some plation. 

 one desire ; for he that affects not 

 one thing above another, finds all 

 flat and distasteiul. 



Why should not one man rest in 

 one individual ? 



For. MAGNANIMITY. Against. 



When the mind proposes ho- Magnanimity is a poetical 



nourable ends, not only the vir- virtue, 

 tues but the deities are ready to 

 assist. 



Virtues proceeding from habit 

 or precept ai-e vulgar, but those 

 that proceed from the end, 

 heroical. 



For. NATURE. Ayaintt. 



Custom goes in arithmetical, but Men think according to nature, 



nature in pjeometrical progression. speak according to precept, but act 



As laws are to custom in states, according to custom, 

 so is nature to custom in particular Nature is a kind of schoolmaster; 



persons. custom, a magistrate. 



Custom against nature is a kind 

 of tyranny, but easily suppressed. 



For. NOBILITY. Against. 



Where virtue is deeply implanted Nobility seldom springs iVom 



from the stock, there can be no virtue, and virtue seldomer from 

 vice. nobility. 



Nobility is a laurel conierred by Nobles oftener plead their an- 



time. cestors for pardon than promotion. 



If we reverence antiquity in New rising men are so indus- 



dead monuments, we should do it Crious as to make nobles seem like 

 much more in living ones. statues. 



^f we despise nobility in families, Nobles, like bad racers, look 



what difference is there betwixt back too often in the course, 

 men and brutes ? 



Nobility shelters virtue from 

 envy and recommends it to favour. 



For. POPULARITY. Against. 



Uniformity commonly pleases He who suits with fools may 



wise men, yet it is a point of wis- himself be suspected, 

 dom to humour the changeable He who pleases the rabble is 



nature of fools. commonly turbulent. 



To honour the people is the way No moderate counsels take with 

 to be honoured. the vulgar. 



Men in place are usually awed To fawn on the people ia tho 



Dot by one m&n but the multitude. basest flattery. 



