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A50062	Fœlix consortium, or, A fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume, consisting of six books : the first treating of religion in general ... the second of learning ... the third, fourth, fifth and sixth books particularizing the men eminent for religion or learning ... : in an alphabetical order / by Edward Leigh ...; Treatise of religion and learning	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1663 (1663)	Wing L995; ESTC R12761	642,487	480

special Grammarian and his books de Emendata Structura have much conduced to expell barbarism Gerardus Vossius hath put out a most learned and elaborate book De Arte Grammatica and another De vitiis Sermonis Trivial and Grammer Schools are to be respected and encouraged because they are the Nurseries of Learning there the foundation being well laid young plants thence removed to the publick Universities well furnished with that kinde of Learning may prove eminent instruments in Church or State Grammer challengeth the first place to it self and boyes are to learn both the Greek and Latine Grammer Non modo quod his duabus linguis omnia fermè sunt prodita quae digna cognitu videantur verùm etiam quod utraque alteri sic assinis est ut ambae citius percipi queant conjunctim quam altera sine altera certè quam Latina sine Graeca Erasm. De Ratione Studiis For the pure Greek writers Erasmus commends chiefly Lucian Demosthenes Herodotus and of the Poets Aristophanes Homer Euripides For the Latine saith he Quis utilior loquendi autor quàm Terentius purus tersus quotidiano sermoni proximus tum ipso quoque argumenti genere jucundus adolescentiae Huic si quis aliquot selectas Plauti Comaedias putet addendas quae vacent obscaenitate equidem nihil repugno Proximus locus erit Virgilio tertius Horatio quartus Ciceroni quinius C. Caesari Salustium si quis adjungendum arbitrabitur cum hoc non magnopere contenderim atque has quid●m ad utriusque linguae cognitionem satis esse duco Erasm. De ratione studii II. Logick It is the most universal of all Arts. It is usefull for all Sciences It is ingeniorum lima cos The proper formall object of it is Reason its adequate end to dispute well The duties of a Logician are either general as that which is comprehended in the definition of Logick to reason well or special as those which be contained in the distribution of Logick to invent well and to judge well Logice dirigit intellectum in cognitione veri praecipuaque ejus instrumenta sunt argumentatio definitio divisio methodus Gerard Joan. Vos De Studiorum ratione parte priore Zeno the Stoick said Rhetorick was like the palm or the hand stretcht out Logick to the fist he might have said more fitly saith Ludovicus Vives that the Logician collects an Argument for the subtill examination of the learned but the Rhetorician applies it to the popular sense for the Oratour often more briefly collects then the Logician III. Rhetorick is a speech dressed with certain allurements proper to please and perswade Tully saith The absolute praise of an Oratour is three-fold Docere Delectare Movere Docere debitum est Delectare honorarium permovere necessarium The great virtue of an Oration is perspicuity Omnis oratio tres habet virtutes ut emendata ut dilucida ut ornata sit Quintil. Instit. orat l. 1. c. 5. Nazianzene in one of his Orations saith He affected Rhetorick so much because he had some thing of value to esteem as nothing for Christ. Nemo te nisi tu exprimere rectè valet None is able to set forth eloquence but it self This hath immortalized Plato Demosthenes Cicero Homer Virgil Herodotus Thucydides Livie Salust Cùm Ciceronem dico ipsam Romanam eloquentiam intelligere debetis Cùm verò libros de oratore opus in ea facultate putatote quo opere nullum nec Graecia nec Italia melius aut perfectius unquam habuit Cael. Sec. Cur. Orat. de ingenuis artibus Vide ejus orat De Rhetoricae usu Quintilian makes it a chief end and fruit of long pains and exercises in the Art of Rhetorick to attain to such a faculty as to be able also upon any sudden occasion to speak pertinently without any premeditation What an inchanting force hath Rhetorick One had need of the force of Demosthenes or rather that divine eloquence of Tully to set forth the due praises of eloquence Pierius Valerianus observes in the 26 Book of his Hieroglyphicks that sweet eloquence is signified by the Hieroglyphick of the Bee Bees setled on Plato's lips when he was a childe sleeping in the Cradle a presage of his future eloquence The same is reported of Ambrose and Pindar The same Pierius in the 41 Chapter of his 20 Book of Hieroglyphicks saith Wise men did put Syrens for the Hieroglyphick of Eloquence and the perswading force of Rhetorick whence that saying of Cato the Grammarian Cato Grammaticus Latina Syren CHAP. IV. Of the Mathematicks THe Mathematicks are so named because they are not learned without a teacher When Alexander bad his Mathematick master make his lessons easier to him then in his ordinary way to others he answered him well The Mathematicks were alike difficult to all The ancient Philosophers taught their Pupils Mathematicks very soon as appears by Aristotle and others they confirming their Propositions by mathematical demonstrations the knowledge whereof must be presupposed See Tych. Brah. Orat. De Discip. Mat. The Mathematicks are a most accurate and profitable study for the evidence and certainty of their demonstrations Abraham was famous for teaching the Mathematicks first among the Chaldeans and after he taught the same A 〈…〉 as Historians write The old Mathematicians drew their proportions in dust with a Compass the better to shew what they would Tully cals it learned dust Et secto in pulvere metas Archimedes was doing this when Siracuse was taken Princes and great persons have studied the Mathematicks and those that study them to purpose had need to have some Princes or great persons to encourage them therein by their bounty in respect of the chargeablenesse of their instruments as Tycho Brahe somewhere saith Mathematicks are either Pure or Mixt To pure Mathematicks those Sciences are referred which handle Quantity altogether abstracted from matter and Physical axioms they are two Geometry and Arithmetique the one handling continued Quantity the other dissevered Quantity or number To mixt Mathematicks Astronomy and Musick are usually referred and the Opticks I. Arithmetique is an Art of numbring well Pythagoras first brought it into an Art thence the Pythagoreans did swear per numerum quaternarium quò nihil apud eos videtur esse perfectius For there are four Elements Fire Air Water Earth four times of the year Spring Autumn Summer Winter four qualities of all things Heat Cold Moisture Drinesse four Coasts of the Heaven East West North South It is the first of the Mathematicks and usefull to all the rest One should get some skill in the vulgar Arithmetique before he learn Geometry and that either by a teacher or by plain books such as the Arithmetique of Gemma Frìfius or Ramus with Snellius his Notes The principle of number is unity as of magnitude punctum By this the Pythagoreans in times past covered the mysteries of all nature and even of God