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cramp the mind and confine its motions in business. But 

 this part of civil doctrine relating to conversation is ele 

 gantly treated by some writers, and can by no means be 

 reported as deficient. 10 



CHAPTER II 



The Art of Negotiation divided into the Knowledge of Dispersed Occasions 

 (Conduct in Particular Emergencies), and into the Science of Rising in 

 Life. Examples of the former drawn from Solomon. Precepts relat 

 ing to Self-advancement 



WE DIVIDE the doctrine of business into the doc 

 trine of various occasions, and the doctrine of 

 rising in life. The first includes all the possible 

 variety of affairs, and is as the amanuensis to common life; 

 but the other collects and suggests such things only as regard 

 the improvement of a man s private fortune, and may there 

 fore serve each person as a private register of his affairs. 



No one has hitherto treated the doctrine of business suit 

 ably to its merit, to the great prejudice of the character 

 both of learning and learned men; for from hence proceeds 

 the mischief, which has fixed it as a reproach upon men of 

 letters, that learning and civil prudence are seldom found 

 together. And if we rightly observe those three kinds of 

 prudence, which we lately said belong to civil life, that of 

 conversation is generally despised by men of learning as a 

 servile thing and an enemy to contemplation ; and for the 



10 It seems of late more cultivated among the French and Germans, than 

 among the English. The &quot;Morale du Monde&quot;; the &quot;Modeles de Conversa 

 tion&quot;; the &quot;Reflexions sur la Ridicule, and sur les moyens de 1 eviter&quot;; &quot;La 

 Politesse des Moeurs&quot;; &quot;L Art de Plaire dans la Conversation&quot;; and Frid. 

 Gentzkenius s &quot;Doctrina de Decoro,&quot; in his Systema Philosophise, deserve 

 perusal. This last work, published in Germany, treats 1, of the nature of 

 decorum and its foundation; 2, of national decorum; 3, of human decorum; 

 4, the decorum of youth and age ; 5, the decorum of men and women ; 6, the 

 decorum of husband and wife; 7, the decorum of the clergy; 8, the decorum 

 of princes; and 9, the decorum of the nobility and men of letters. See &quot;Stollii 

 Introductio in Historiam Literariam, de Doctrina ejus quod est Decorum,&quot; p. 

 795-6. fiftow. 



