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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44507	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Eton-scholars at St. Mary le Bow on November 18, 1679 by Thomas Horn.	Horne, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2813; ESTC R30339	15,428	36

increase her Treasure farther As in learning to Write we value not the Copies we have written out we scarce ever cast an Eye upon them afterwards That which we aim'd at was the dextrous use of the Hand by which we are able easily to do much more so 't is likewise the growth of the faculties that is the chief improvement of Education by which the Mind is able to enrich her self though her former stock should be lost The setling the Mind constantly upon Employment teaches a Man afterward to fix upon business The not suffering his Childhood to tast of idleness but keeping him constantly going on at last makes Labour as delightful as Play partly by the power of custom partly by the pleasure of gaining little victories over things that were difficult by Commendations by Emulations and Triumphs over others and a tast of some sweetness in Knowledge Again the frequent change of their Work does both make the Labour easie one being a recreation to the other and that change also makes a Man afterward more ready to turn himself quickly to the suddain importunities and various changes of Affairs The care that is used in examining the expressions of Authors and every little thing in a Word 'till the meaning be hit exactly teaches them to do the same afterward to dive more readily into the minutes of business and to let nothing pass The very agitation of the Mind makes its faculties lusty and healthy The exercise of the fancy teaches it to open its Wings and flutter and then to venture from shorter to more large and bold flights 'till at last it soares freely and loftily and looks upon things the Prospect opening it self endlesly to the imagination as she passes on and giving the Mind an opportunity of viewing the varieties of the World and of comparing things and surveying their similitudes and differences 'till at length by little degrees we learn in the operations of the fancy to judge The using Children to gather Observations is one of the first occasions of kindling a love of Learning For thereby they see they have done something and rejoyce in their strength they compute their Gains and look upon their Wealth and learn to hoard up and grow into a generous covetousness after more and when that design once grows into them Industry and Vigilance carry on the Work apace Especially when the manly reasonable Invention begins to open like the breaking forth of the Morning When the Soul examins her stores and finds some Reasonings glittering like Jewels upon the entrance of light into a dark Room and she rejoyces to find a Treasure within her self which she never dream'd of Finally the frequent correction of the Errors of Invention teaches both to observe the indecencies of the fancy in her flights and also to examin her own steps exactly to go back and consider all over again to observe what occasioned her mistakes and how to prevent them for the future This use teaches us afterwards to correct our own reasonings and put our thoughts in order and to try in what method we may more easily expedite our doubts and find out truth when we enter into deeper searches a thing of wonderful use in all our following progress in Knowledge And on these two last Considerations vast things depend It is not improbable that that mighty difference which we see between the famous Men of the World and others proceeds not so much from the natural Parts which they brought into the World as first from a felicity in well placing a few early thoughts upon some noble design which inflamed their Spirits reigned in all their thoughts and infused an earnest care of persuing their beloved end And then secondly from an exact Observation of their own-steps which setled them in good methods of considering and reasoning The famous Henry Stevens says of himself That while he was a Boy he fell in love with the Greek Tongue so fond and amorous he was so he expresses himself that he courted it day and night with all the importunity care and address that he could possibly And how much he gained upon that difficult uncertain Dame his Thesaurus Graecae linguae and other Labours witness to the World Tully seems to have lighted when young upon some such glorious thought as this that Rome might as well out-do Athens in Eloquence as her and the rest of the World in other great things for he is very often touching upon the string and his design of the glory of Eloquence was reigning in him very early for his Book of Rhetorical Invention was written when he was little above Twenty years old Demosthenes whom Tully particularly emulated was before him smitten with the like thought by hearing an excellent Oration to which his Master carried him when he was a Boy and one it seems of no excellent Parts but mightily set upon a design in a lucky hour And this became to him quickness invention and eloquence Of late days the great De Cartes was blest in his youth with an unsatiable desire after Philosophy and in all things clear evidence of truth In order thereto one of his fruitful thoughts was the keeping his reason true to her Work the care of proceeding methodically and steadily in all his Meditations And his constancy in this one care produced excellent Fruits in him before he wrote himself Man As if when it pleases Almighty God to produce some glorious Lights in the World he need only to put a good quality of motion into great Orbs of dark and sluggish Matter fixing some Laws to be observed in all their motions And immediately the Vortices go on with the Work themselves as if they were inspired and taken with the design They sort themselves and gather together their lucid parts in heaps at their Centers and forthwith there appear glorious Lights and all is transparent from the bottoms to the vast Superficies As if one great Man differed from another great Man in Glory according as one chose a greater the other a lesser Sphere to move in together with the different celerities and conatus that were put into them As suppose one youth lighting upon a pleasant conceit and meeting applause and smiles pleases himself and being taken with it plays with the ambition of the like wit and spins in that narrow Circle all his days and never goes beyond it Another designs a more noble study but still is streightned by selfishness and vain-glory Another aims at the best part of knowledge and designs it the glory of his God and the good of Men and moves in a large Sphere and shines with a greater luster and a more commending influence And in this respect the places of public Education have an advantage above the private that they afford fairer opportunities of kindling and cherishing these great designs I need not trouble you with the envious comparison for allowing that private places are in some respects safer viz. by reason of a narrower