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nation_n	good_a	hear_v	please_v	1,675	5	9.1053	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01516	The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane To the King.; Of the proficience and advancement of learning	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 1164; ESTC S100507	164,580	339

her selfe these things I say considered as I could not haue chosen an instance so recent and so proper so I suppose I could not haue chosen one more remarqueable or eminent to the purpose nowe in hand which is concerning the coniunction of learning in the Prince with felicitie in the people Neither hath Learning an influence and operation onely vpon ciuile merit and morall vertue and the Arts or temperature of peace and peaceable gouernement but likewise it hath no lesse power and efficacie in inablement towards martiall and militarie vertue and prowesse as may be notably represented in the examples of Alexander the Great and Caesar the Dictator mentioned before but now in fit place to bee resumed of whose vertues and Acts in warre there needes no note or recitall hauing beene the wonders of time in that kind But of their affections towardes learning and perfections in learning it is pertinent to say somewhat Alexander was bred and taught vnder Aristotle the great Philosopher who dedicated diuers of his Bookes of Philosophie vnto him he was attended with Callisthenes and diuers other learned persons that followed him in Campe throughout his Iourneyes and Conquests what price and estimation hee had learning in doth notably appeare in these three particulars First in the enuie he vsed to expresse that he bare towards Achilles in this that he had so good a Trumpet of his prayses as Homers verses Secondly in the iudgement or solution he gaue touching that precious Cabinet of Darius which was found among his Iewels whereof question was made what thing was worthy to be put into it and he gaue his opinion for Homers workes Thirdly in his letter to Aristotle after hee had set sorth his Bookes of Nature wherein he expostulateth with him for publishing the secrets or misteries of Philosophie and gaue him to vnderstand that himselfe esteemed it more to excell other men in learning knowledge than in power and Empire And what vse he had of learning doth appeare or tather shine in all his speeches and answeres being full of science and vse of science and that in all varietie And herein againe it may seeme a thing scholasticall and somewhat idle to recite things that euery man knoweth but yet since the argument I handle leadeth mee thereunto I am glad that men shall perceiue I am as willing to flatter if they will so call it an Alexander or a Caesar or an Antoninus that are dead many hundreth yeeres since as any that now liueth for it is the displaying of the glorie of Learning in Soueraigntie that I propound to my selfe and not an humour of declayming in any mans praises Obserue then the speech hee vsed of Diogenes and see if it tend not to the true state of one of the greatest questions of morall Philosophie whether the enioying of outward thinges or the contemning of them be the greatest happinesse for when he saw Diogenes so perfectly contented with so little he sayd to those that mocked at his condition Were I not Alexander I would wish to be Diogenes But Seneca inuerteth it and sayth Plus erat quod hic nollet accipere quam quod ille posset dare There were more things which Diogenes would haue refused thā those were which Alexander could haue giuen or enioyed Obserue again that speech which was vsuall with him That hee felt his mortality chiefely in two thinges Sleepe Lust see if it were not a speech extracted out of the depth of naturall Philosophie and liker to haue comen out of the mouth of Aristotle or Democritus than from Alexander See againe that speech of Humanitie and poesie when vppon the bleeding of his wounds he called vnto him one of his flatterers that was wont to ascribe to him diuine honor and said Looke this is very blood this is not such a liquor as Homer speaketh of which ran from Venus hand when it was pierced by Diomedes See likewise his readinesse in reprehension of Logique in the speech hee vsed to Cassander vppon a complaint that was made against his Father Antipater for when Alexander happed to say Doe you thinke these men would haue come from so farre to complaine except they had iust cause of griefe and Cassander answered Yea that was the matter because they thought they should not be disprooued sayd Alexander laughing See the subtil●…ies of Aristotle to take a matter both wayes Pro Contra c. But note againe how well he could vse the same Art which hee reprehended to serue his owne humor when bearing a secret grudge to Callisthenes because he was against the new ceremonie of his adoration feasting one night where the same Callisthenes was at the table it was mooued by some after supper for entertainement sake that Callisthenes who was an eloquent man might speake of some theame or purpose at his owne choise which Callisthenes did chusing the praise of the Macedonian Nation for his discourse performing the same with so good maner as the hearers were much rauished whereupon Alexander nothing pleased sayd It was easie to be eloquent vpon so good a subiect But saith hee Turne your stile and let vs heare what you can say against vs which Callisthenes presently vndertooke and did with that stinge life that Alexander interrupted him sayd The goodnesse of the cause made him eloquent before and dispig●…t made him cloquent then againe Consider further for tropes of Rhetorique that excellent vse of a Metaphor or translation wherewith he taxed Antipater who was an imperious and tyrannous Gouernor for when one of Antipaters friends commended him to Alexander for his moderation that he did not degenerate as his other Lieftenants did into the Persian pride in vse of purple but kept the anciēt habit of Macedon of black True saith Alexander but Antipater is all purple within Or that other when Parmenio came to him in the plaine of Arbella and shewed him the innumerable multitude of his enemies specially as they appeared by the infinite number of lights as it had beene a new firmament of starres and thereupon aduised him to assayle them by night whereupon he answered That he would not steale the Victorie For matter of policie weigh that significant distinction so much in al ages embraced that he made between his two friends Ephestion and Craterus whē he sayd That the one loued Alexander and the other loued the King describing the principall difference of Princes best seruants that some in affection loue their person and other in dutie loue their crowne Weigh also that excellent taxation of an Errour ordinarie with Counsellors of Princes that they counsell their Maisters according to the modell of their owne mind and fortune and not of their Masters when vpon Darius great offers Parmenio had said Surely I would accept these offers were I as Alexander sayth Alexander So would I were I as Parmenio Lastly weigh that quicke and acute reply which he made when he gaue so large gifts to his