CHAP. IIJ.J 



EXAMPLES OP ANTITIIETA. 



Tlie mind is best regulated by 1 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 aff"ects not 

 one thing above another, finds all 

 flat and distastelul. 



Why should not one man rest in 

 one individual ? 



For. MAGNANIMITY. Against. 



^Vllen the mind proposes ho- Magnanimity is a poetical 



n curable ends, not only the vir- virtue, 

 tues but the deities are ready to 

 assist. 



Virtues proceeding from habit 

 or precept are vulgar, but those 

 that proceed isoxn. the end, 

 heroical. 



For. NATURE. Ar/ainst. 



Men think according to nature, 

 speak according to precept, but act 

 according to custom. 



Custom goes in ai'ithmetical, but 



nature in i.xeometrical progression. 



As laws are to custom in states, 



Ro is nature to custom in particular 



persons. 



Custom against nature is a kind 

 of tyranny, but easily suppressed. 



For. NOBILITY. Against. 



Nobility seldom springs fiom 



Nature is a kind of schoolmaster; 

 custom, a magistrate. 



Where virtue is deeply implanted 

 from the stock, there can be no 



Nobility is a laurel conierred by 

 time. 



If we reverence antiquity in 

 dead monuments, we should do it 

 KUich more in living ones. 



If we despise nobility in families, 

 what difference is there betwixt 

 men and brutes ? 



Nobility shelters virtue from 

 envy and recommends it to favour. 



For. POPULARITY. 



Uniformity commonly pleases 

 wise men, yet it is a point of wis- 

 dom to humour the changeable 

 nature of fools. 



To honour the people is the way 

 to be honoured. 



Men in place are usually awed 

 pot by one man but the multitude. 



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virtue, and virtue seldomer from 

 nobility. 



Nobles oftener plead their an- 

 cestors for pardon than promotion. 



New rising men are so indus- 

 trious as to make nobles seem like 

 statues. 



Nobles, like bad racers, look 

 back too often in the course. 



Against. 



He who suits with fools may 

 himself be suspected. 



He who pleases the rabble is 

 commonly turbulent. 



No moderate counsels take with 

 the vulgar. 



To fawn on the people is tho 

 "ba-sest flattery. 



