The Platform 



LIB. VIII. THE PARTITION OF CIVIL KNOWLEDGE INTO 



rConverfation 

 Cap. I. 



'Not AfFeftedjmuchlelsdelpifed.i Speech r Conception. 

 ^ \va. l\xQ\vtteriince, 



fGeneral 





in iGeftlire r Speaker, 



of 



Hearer. 



But Moderated, that ! 

 is either "^ 



ife/^e-r Quality of Men. 

 fi?/z/c ^Nature of Matter. § 

 pies thereof out of Solo- '^Jo theCh Of timo, § Of Place: 

 mons Proverbs. 



^Six 



Scatttered occajions, exam- 



Countenance. Works* 

 Aftions. Nature, 

 Ends. Reports. 



'Others *5 



I Ncgo- 

 J tiation.J 

 j Cap. 2> 



mea 



well 





I Tiree 



of 



S 



{"Acquaintance with 

 leen in the world. 

 ] A wife temper in liberty 

 "^ Ipeech aud filence. 



A prefent dexterity both to ob- 

 ferve and aft. 



The M 

 vance- 

 ment of' 

 Fortune'^ 

 Precepts 

 .thereof 



Cover- f Partitions 

 J mentofjomited 

 States ^Deficients 



Cap. 3. 



How his Nature and abilities fort rvith 

 -The eftate of the prefent time : Pro- 

 Him-Sfeffions that are in prize: His competitors 

 i^felf ^in fortune : The Friends he hath chofen : 

 CThe examples he \vould follow. 



Setting forth his Vertues 5 Fortunes, Merits.' 



C Caution. 

 Concealing his De{c&s,< Co lour. 



and Difgraccs, by C^onfidence, 

 Declaring a Man's mind in particulars by a 



mediocrity of Revealing, Concealing. 

 Framing the mind to become flexible to 

 occafionsj of place, time, and perfons,€^tf. 



''That he be well skill'd what inftrumentsto ufe 

 and how. 

 That he overtask not his own abilities. 

 That he do nbt always ftay for,but fbmetiraes. 



provoke occafions. 

 That he never undertake great, or long works.' 

 That he never (b engage himfelf but that he 

 leave a poftern door open for retreat. 

 l_That he fo love, as he may hate upon occafion. 



** 7he art of enlarging an Eftate. 



/Certain in the intimation. * 



^^The fount ains\]\x^ in the commandment. 

 of Laws. « Fit to be put in execution. 



J Agreeing with the form of the ftate. 

 \ Begetting vcrtue in the Subjefts. 



LIB.IX. 



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