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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47893	The art how to know men originally written by the sieur de La Chambre ... ; rendred into English by John Davies ...; Art de connoistre les hommes. English	La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 1594-1669.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1665 (1665)	Wing L128; ESTC R5716	184,277	440

THE ART HOW TO KNOW MEN. THE ART HOW TO KNOW MEN. Originally written By the Sieur DE LA CHAMBRE Counsellour to His Majesty of France and Physician in Ordinary Rendred into English By JOHN DAVIES of Kidwelly Licensed March 2. 1664 5. ROGER L'ESTRANGE LONDON Printed by T.R. for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet neer Cliffords-Inn M. DC LXV TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL of CARLISLE Vicount HOVVARD of Morpeth Baron Dacre of Gilsland Lord Lieutenant of Westmerland and Cumberland and one of His Majesties most honourable Privy-Council MY LORD IF the Present your Lordship here receives be consider'd only according to its bulk I must no doubt lie open to the reproach of offering so mean a Sacrifice at the Shrine of so noble a Name But if the excellency of the Subject treated of be put into the other Scale with this allowance that whatever is offer'd derives its merit from the sincerity and devotion of the Offerer I may more rationally hope the acceptance than fear the rejection of it Your Lordship will find in this small Treatise the Frontispiece or first Draught of the boldest design that haply was ●ver undertaken in the Empire of Learning to wit THE ART HOW TO KNOW MEN an Art comprehending what ever contributes to the discovery of their most secret Inclinations the Motions of their Souls their Vertues and their Vices an Art which if well studied will bring to those who shall attain it answerably to their several qualifications the greatest satisfaction and advantages imaginable For what greater can any one man frame to himself than those which accrue from his knowledge of another even though they move in the meanest station of Affairs But if those are so considerable how much more must they be which are made by persons entrusted with the management of Embassies and the most important Transactions of Crowns and Scepters and consequently oblig'd to treat with People of different Tempers and Climates In these last it suffices not to be guided by those common observations and characters of men which are obvious to the Populace and commonly mask'd and disguiz'd but the grand secret is to penetrate into the Closets and insinuate into the very bosoms of Princes and Favourites And this consideration it was which the more inclin'd me to make a particular dedication of this Labour of mine to your Lordships patronage For whom could I expect more favourable to the ART HOW TO KNOW MEN than One who had so lately satisfy'd the world how well he had studied it before From whom could that Art look for a kinder reception than from one who had shewn himself so much a Master of it in carrying on a Negotiation which led him from the most to the least-civiliz'd extremities of Christendom Your Lordship might here expect I should give some account of my Author the Advancer of this so excellent and beneficial an Art but I refer what I have to say of him to another place concluding here after I have begg'd your Lordship's pardon for the rudeness of this Address with an assurance that it is made with the greatest respects and submissions and consequently that I am Right Honourable Your Lordship 's most humble and most obedient Servant J. DAVIES AN Accompt of the AUTHOR taken out of the History of the French Academy Printed at London in the year M. DC LVII Pag. 229. THe Author of that History being to give an accompt of the first setling and advancement of the Academy to that time thought fit towards the end of his Work to set down a Catalogue of the Members of it of which number our Author being one I find this said of him being the sixth nam'd in the Catalogue MARIN CVREAV DE LA CHAMBRE Counsellor to the King in his Councils and his Physician in Ordinary born at Mans. His Works in Print are New Conjectures about Digestion New Conjectures concerning the Causes of Light the Overflowing of the Nile and the Love of Inclination The Characters of the Passions in two Volumes A Treatise of the Understanding of Beasts New Observations and Conjectures about the Rainbow If he perfect what he hath begun we shall have a Continuation of the Characters of the Passions A Treatise of Man's Beauty Another Of the Nature and Dispositions of Nations and THE ART HOW TO KNOW MEN. He hath translated into French the Eight Books of ARISTOTLE's Physicks which are not Printed and he gives us hopes ere long of a Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates which he calls Usus Aphorismorum his design is after he hath set down Hippocrates's meaning in each Aphorism to apply it to other Subjects and shew all the Vses which may be made of it Thus farr the Author of the History It is very probable that not only those Pieces here mention'd of his but also divers others are since Printed in several Languages Of which we shall forbear to give any further since we cannot give an exact accompt TO The very Worthy Translator of this Exquisite Piece THE ART HOW TO KNOW MEN. THere are various kinds of KNOWLEDG that belong to Man The chiefest of all is To know his Creator The second to know Himself The third to know his Fellow-Creatures especially for Man to know Man Touching the first 'T is so sublime and transcendent a Speculation that though the greatest Theorists have scru'd up their Wits to the highest Pin yet the further they soar'd the more they were at a loss For there is no Finite Intellect can frame a Quidditative apprehension of God There may be Negative conceptions of Him as to think he is Immense Infinite Immortal c. Or there may be Relative Expressions of Him as when we call Him Creator King and Conservator of all things c. Or He may be describ'd by an accumulation of Epithets as Almighty Mercifull Just and by the Abstracts thereof c. But for a comprehensive Quiddity of His Essence it cannot fal under the capacity of any created power In so much that the Dedication inscrib'd upon the Greek Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the Vnknown God may in a sane sense carry with it a holy kind of Admiration and Modesty rather than Ignorance Concerning the second It was the Motto which the greatest Philosopher fix'd upon the portal of his School 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Know thy self And one would think that every one is near enough to attain this knowledg yet 't is observ'd that not one Physician among twenty will venture to minister himself Physick when he is dangerously sick And touching the Mind every Man commonly looks upon himself through a Magnifying-glass so that he cannot behold his true proportion Touching the last viz. for knowing our Fellow-Creatures we have been near upon six thousand years in study of it yet if what we know all this while were cast in to counterballance with what we know not 't is thought the scale of Ignorance would outweigh that of