arising out of a universal insight into the affairs of the 
     world; which is used indeed upon particular causes 
     propounded, but is gathered by general observation of 
     cases of like nature. For so we see in the book which Q. 
     Cicero writeth to his brother, De petitione consulatus , 
     (being the only book of business that I know written by 
     the ancients,) although it concerned a particular action 
     set on foot, yet the substance thereof consisteth of 
     many wise and politic axioms, which contain not a 
     temporary, but a perpetual direction in the case of 
     popular elections. But chiefly we may see in those 
     aphorisms which have place among divine writings, 
     composed by Salomon the king, (of whom the Scriptures 
     testify that his heart was as the sands of the sea, 
     encompassing the world and all worldly matters), we see, 
     I say, not a few profound and excellent cautions,