284 Of ^^^ Advancement of Learning. Lib. VIII. 



^ ~~ lofophy, wherein they almoft joyn clofe by the fame aflertion of what 

 Mat- ri. (Iiould be jirfi fought ^ for Divinty commands, Firfifeek the Kingdefit 

 of God, and aU thefe thwgs fl}^ be fuperadded unto you^ and rhilo- 

 fophy commands foraewhat like this; Seekfirfl the goods of the tnind^ 

 and the rejl pall befttpplied, or m vpay prejudiced by their abfence.- 

 And although this foundation laid by man.is fometimes placed upon 

 thefands, as we may fee in M. Brutus^, who in the laft fceneof his 

 life, brake forth into that fpeech, 



TeColui virtus ttt Rem, aft Tu Nomen inane es: 



Dion. Lib. 



Po^'eta veu Yet the fame foundation laid by the hand of heaven, is firmly fettled 

 upon a Rock. And here we conclude the knowledge of Ad' 

 •vancement of Life 5 and withall the general knowledge of Negc 

 \ nations. 



HAP. 



m. 



The Partitions of the Art of Empire or Governvient are omitted 5 

 only accefs is made to two Deficients. I. The knorcledge of en- 

 Urging the Bounds of Empire. II. And the l^nowledge of uni- 

 verfal Juftice; or of the Fountains ofLaiv. 



I. T Come now to the Art of Empire, or the the knowledge of Civil 

 J Government^ Mndei 'which. Hotife-hold Government \s compre- 

 hended, as a Family is under a City. " In this part, as I (aid before, I 

 "have commanded my felffilence; yet notwithftanding I may not 

 " fo difable my felf ; but that I could difcourfe of this part alfo, per* 

 *=' chance not impertinently, nor unprofitably, as one pradtifcd by 

 " long experience j and by your Majejiy's moft indulgent favours, and 

 *' no merit of mine own, raifed by the degrees of office and honours, 

 " to the higheft Dignity in the State , and have born that office for 

 *'= four years ; and which is more , have been accuftomed to your 

 " Majefiies commands and conferences , for the continued fpace of 

 " eighteen years together, ("which even of the dulleft mould might 

 *' fafhion and produces State-man) who have fpent much time, a- 

 " mongft other knowledges, in Hiftories and Laws. All which I re- 

 port to Pojierity , not out of any arrogant ojientation 5 but becaufe I 

 prcfume it maizes fomethingto the honour and dignity of Learning 5 that 

 a man horn for Letters more than any thing elfe, and forcibly carried a- 

 vpay, I know not by what fate, againfl the bent of his own Genius, to a 

 Civil a&ive cottrfe of life , fliould yet be advanc'd to fo high and ho- 

 nourable charges in the State, and that under fo veife a King. But ifmy 

 times of leifure (hall bring forth hereafter any thing touching the 

 wifdom of Government , and ftate-matters, it will be perchance an 

 Abortive, or an After-birth. In the mean fpace^now that all Sciences 

 are diftributed and ranged , as it were, into their true Forms, left 



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