250 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [BOOK VI. 



rhetoric. And so mucli for the popular marks or colours of 

 apparent good and evil, both simple and comparative. 



A second collection wanting to the apparatus of rhetoric 

 is that intimated by Cicero, when he directs a set ot com- 

 mon-places, suited to both sides of the question, to be had in 

 readiness : such are, " pro verbis legis," et " pro sententia legis." 

 But we extend this precept farther, so as to include not only- 

 judicial, but also deliberate and demonstrative forms. Our 

 meaning is, that all the places of common use, whether for 

 proof, confutation, persuasion, dissuasion, praise, or dispraise, 

 should be ready studied, and either exaggerated or degraded 

 with the utmost effort of genius, or, as it were, perverse 

 resolution beyond all measure of truth. And the best way 

 of forming this collection, both for conciseness and use, we 

 judge to be that of contracting and winding up these places 

 into certain acute and short sentences ; as into so many 

 clues, which may occasionally be wound off into larger dis- 

 courses. And something of this kind we find done by 

 Seneca ;™ but only in the way of suppositions or cases. The 

 following examples will more fully illustrate our intention : — 



F(yr. BEAUTY." Against. 



The deformed endeavour, by Virtue, like a diamond, is best 



malice, to keep themselves from plain set. 



contempt. Asa good dress to a deformed 



Deformed persons are commonly person, so is beauty to a vicious 



revenged of nature. man. 



Virtue is internal beauty, and Those adorned with beauty, and 



beauty external virtue. those affected by it, are generally 



Beauty makes virtue shine, and shallow alike, 

 vice blush. 



For. BOLDNESS. Against. 



A bashful suitor shows the way Boldness is the verger to folly. 



to deny him. Impudence is fit for nothing but 



Boldness in a politician is like imposture, 



action in an orator — the first. Confidence is the fool's empresa 



second, and third qualification. and the wise man's buffoon. 



Love the man who confesses his Boldness is a kind of dulnesa^ 



modesty ; but hate him who ac- joined with a perverseness. 

 cuses it. 



A confidence iu carriage soonest 

 uiiites affections. 



Give me a reserved countenance 

 and open conversation. 



"* Controversia. 



° In the original there is a different arrangement. Wo have followed 

 tlie alphabetical order. 



