The Whole Critical Works of Monsieur Rapin

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Qualities, as by concealing their bad ones, and by fuffering no one to dive into the Secrets of their Hearts. So that the little Care Cicero. took of hiding his failures, ought rather to be afcribed to his too great Sincerity, than to a Littlenefs of Soul, or Meanefs of Spirit; neither is jt by any means,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Qualities, as by concealing their bad ones, and by fuffering no one to dive into the Secrets of their Hearts. So that the little Care Cicero. took of hiding his failures, ought rather to be afcribed to his too great Sincerity, than to a Littlenefs of Soul, or Meanefs of Spirit; neither is jt by any means, a difcovering of our Weaknefles, to reveal them to a Friend, which, is no more thari imparting them to ones own felf. But as we commonly pafs our Judgments upon moft things, and that too with great Candor, according to their Appearances, - fo the Art of impofing upon others, and concealing ones felf, pafies fqr a very great Accom- ctput trt- plifliment amongft Politicians. This was not torit us the Principle Cicero aanded upon, who difco- apud ver'j himfelf without the leaft Jleferve, and taiisut- iways thought the beft Courage to appear - e in ones own lhape without Pifguife., vide- this Maxim he recommends as a Precept to hi . i de rator. prator. CHAP. IX. 4 Comparifon of their other Qualities. ONE would imagine, that after having obfery'd the Difference that there is be- tween the Abilities, and between the Jntegri- ty of Cicero and Demoftbencs, there could no- thing elfe remain wcrch Remark, as to their Perfona Merit. But yet each of them were andow'd with fcch other particular Qualities, ...-'if, ' i t which, tho' lefs EfTemial to Eloquence, did neverthelefs much contribute to the Reputation they had gain'd. The Advantage vvhicfa conlifts in the agreeablenefs of the Orator' Perfon, one would imagine to, be yery jnjcon- fiderable and yet we find that 'tis of great Importance to him; and gumtilia, whp omits nothing that may any ways conduce to diduric- the Perfection of an Orator, gives us this In- ftrudtion, that the Gare an Orato...