1 82 Of the Advancement of Learning. Lib. VI. 



bafe, but in things honeft it was an eafie matter to be eloquent. Plato 

 inMcnon. <'aith elegantly (though the faying be now popular) That venue, if fie 

 could be feen, would move great love and affe&ion : but Rhetorick paints 

 our vertueand goodnefs to the life, and makes them ii a fort confpicu- 

 ous: For feeing they cannot be (hewed to fen(e k\ corporal ftape,' the 

 next degree is by the fair attire of words, to (hew them to the Imagina- 

 tion, fo faras may beinalively reprefentation; for the cufl:om of the 

 Stoicks was defervedly derided by Cicero, who labour'd to thruft ver- 

 lib "^ *ue upon men, by concife and fharp fentences and conclu(ions , which 

 haveno(}mp3thy with the Imagination and Will. Again,if the /^^c^/- 

 <7»/themfclves were brought into order, and fb reclaim'd from exor^ 

 bitant courfes, as to be pliant and obedient to Reajon, it were true , 

 there fhould be no great ufe of perfwafions and inequations, which 

 might give accefs to the mind ; but ic would be enough if things were 

 nakedly and (imply propofed and proved : but on the contrary, the 

 Affe&ions make fuch revolts ^ and raile up fuch mutinies and feditiorw 

 (according to that 



video meliora Froboque 



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That Reafon would be forcibly led away into (ervitude and captivity, 

 if the perfwafion of Eloquence did notpraftife, and win the Imaginati- 

 on from the Affeftions part, and contraft a league between Reajon and 

 Imagination againft Ajfecfions. For it mu(t be noted that the Affc&io»s 

 themfelves are ever carried to a good Apparent, and, in this refpeft, 

 have fornewhat common with Ke/|^w : but herein they differ j that the 

 dffccl ions bchold^rincipally good in prefent ■■) Reafon beholds a far off', even 

 that rvbich isfuture^nd in jumm. And therefore Iceiog things in pre- 

 lent (ight do more ftrongly fill the Imagination'-, Reafon commonly 

 ^'ields and 16 vanquifht ; but after that by Eloquence , and the force of 

 perfwalion, things /«f«re and remote are propofed, and beheld , as if 

 they were aftually prefent j then upon the falling off" of the Imaginati- 

 on, to take part with Reafon, Reafon prevails. Let us conclude there- 

 fore, that Rhetorick^ can no more be charged with the colouring and 

 adorning of the worfe parr than Logrcl^^.'^'nh the letting out and fuborn- 

 ingof Sophifms; for who knows not that the dodfrine of contraries 

 are the fame, though they be oppofite in ufe. Again, Ldgick, d\Qevs 

 from Rhetorick i) not only in this, that the one (as commonly is (aid) is 

 like the Firfl, the other like the Palm :, that is, one handleth things clo(e- 

 ly, the other at large : but much more in this, that Logick, confidereth 

 Rea(bn in its Naturals; Rhetorick^, as it is planted in vulgar opinion. 

 Therefore Ari^otle doth wifely phce Rhetorick_hetween Logtc/{on the 

 one (ide,nnd Ethick, whh Citui I Knowledge on the other: as participating 

 of both. For th^roofs and Demon(irationsof L^^g^V^j are to all men 

 Indifferent and the fame; but the Proofs and Perfwafions of Rhe- 

 trrick,, rnuft be varied according to the Auditors, that a man, 

 like a skilful Mufician accommodating himfelf to different ears, may 

 become 



Orpheus infjlvis, inter Delphinas Arion. 



Which 



