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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44824	Examen de ingenios, or, The tryal of wits discovering the great difference of wits among men, and what sort of learning suits best with each genius / published originally in Spanish by Doctor Juan Huartes ; and made English from the most correct edition by Mr. Bellamy.; Examen de ingenios. English	Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.; Bellamy, Mr. (Edward)	1698 (1698)	Wing H3205; ESTC R5885	263,860	544

Examen de Ingenios OR THE Tryal of Wits DISCOVERING The great Difference of WITS among Men and what Sort of Learning suits best with each Genius Published Originally in Spanish by Doctor JUAN HUARTES And made English from the most Correct Edition by Mr. BELLAMY Vseful for all Fathers Masters Tutors c. LONDON Printed for Richard Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn MDCXCVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGVE Chancellor of His MAJESTY's Exchequer One of the Lords of the Treasury and a Member of His MAJESTY's Most Honourable Privy Council TO whom can the Tryal of Wits more properly belong than to him that is every way qualified for one of the Tryers if such as it is to be wish'd were appointed by the State And who has a better Right to judge of the several Differences of Wit in Others than he who has first assembled and united them All in Himself The Difference of Studies seems not greater than the Diversity of Talents in Men that are framed for them The Genius of a Logician lies not the same way with that of a good Grammarian insomuch that Dulhard Ludovicus Vives's Master used to say as his Scholar himself has told us that the worst Grammarian would make the best Logician Nor are the Talents of a Linguist the same with those of a Mathematician as appeared in a Tryal of Skill between an Eminent Linguist and a Mathematician of no less Name of our Own Bryan Walton Bishop of Chester and Mr. Oughtred upon a mutual Agreement between them that each should teach the other his Skill The Success of which was no other than this that tho' the Bishop proceeded a great way in making Mr. Oughtred a good Oriental Linguist yet so far was the other in Return from making the Bishop a tolerable Mathematician that he could never get hm to take out so plain a Lesson as that in Euclide of ab Aequalibus si dempseris Aequalia manent Aequalia And I find a late Italian Author taking notice of such Studies as will not well associate and match together particularly instances in these A Poetical Physician a Philosophical Historian a Mathematical Civilian all which are as he terms them no less than Monsters in a Learn'd Academy Nor is the Disproportion between several Arts greater or more visible than even the Disparity between several Parts of the same Art of which to say no more this may suffice for Instance which hath been observ'd by Painters of Men of their own Profession that the greatest Masters in Colouring have rarely or ever proved good Designers and so on the contrary Whether it be easier for Colours to meet and mingle than to unite good Colouring and Design in the same Picture or whether it be that Painters in this inherit the Fate of their own Colours and that different Parts of their Employment will no more unite than disagreeing and unsociable Colours I leave to others to enquire This only I take leave to say that nothing is more ordinary than for that as well as other Professions to abound with Pedants and Men of narrow Spirits whose Heads are filled with Images all of one Colour whereas but few alas Sir besides Your self appear of so Universal and Communicative a Genius and Capacity as the Light which is alike Friendly and Impartial in the Visits it makes and the Colours it receives disdaining not to descend equally to every Eye and to communicate indifferently with all Colours More I might add but that You possess another and a greater Quality of Light which is the fairest Thing in the World and yet it self knows nothing of it as Your Excellences are only unknown to Your Self at the same time as they Shine so Visible to all the World of Your Admirers and in particular to The Meanest of Your Servants EDW. BELLAMY TO THE READER I Here present you Examen de Ingenios made English from the Original whereas that which was done before was from the Italian which of it self was but a Translation I shall say nothing in Disparagement of the Old or in Favour of this New Version I question not but that Gentleman did his Best as I have now done mine and I hope this Curious and Critical Age will kindly receive it as being my Virgin-Essay which may encourage me to proceed to teach some more Spanish Authors of great Wit and Learning Strangers as yet to this Nation soon to speak our Tongue Nor need I offer one Word in Behalf of this Excellent Book because it speaks sufficiently for it self it is well known among the Learned and was well received when first Writ and is yet no less in Esteem amongst most Men of Letters There have been no less than Five or Six several Editions of the Original Three of the Italian Ten or Eleven of the French into which it was at two several times Translated as also Once into Latin and as often into Dutch If all this Proclaims not its Merit at least it speaks its good Fortune in the kind Reception this Book has met with in the World Of this only I am to inform the Reader that Huartes a few Years before he died made some Additions to and Retrenchments in several Places entirely leaving out the Seventh in the Old and adding the First Second and Fifth Chapters in the New Edition with a large Supplement to the Proem It would be no small Advantage to this Kingdom in Particular and to the Commonwealth of Learning in General if this Reformation were attempted and put in Practice for if there were Triers of Wit appointed by the State according to our Authors Proposal to watch the Genius of Children in their first Appearances and Efforts whether to make the Scrutiny as the Antients advised by leading them to the Shops of Mechanics and to chuse Trades for them according to the Tools they chuse to Play with or to descend so far as to observe their Childish Plays and Diversions wherein the Man is often represented in Miniature Thus Vesalius began in his Childhood to cut up Rats and Mice Michael Angelo at the same Age to draw Figures and Galen to make Medicines By these Means there would be fewer Dunces in the Universities as well as fewer Bunglers in the Shops not a few upon Enquiry in the Schools and Inns of Court would be sent to take their Degrees in the Trades and Manual Arts their Bodies being made for Labour not their Minds and their Genius suiting rather with such Professions to require more good Shoulders and good Backs than good Heads Nor upon Examination would there be found fewer in the Shops fit to fill the Places of many Graduates in the Universities And thus by this mutual Transplantation in the end the Universities might be supplied with abler Professors from the Shops and the Shops again in Return stored with better Artists from the Universities Were this Care duly taken to prevent the Mismatching Men and Professions what surer and more effectual