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A59619	Miscellany essays upon philosophy, history, poetry, morality, humanity, gallantry &c. / by Monsieur de St. Evremont ; done into English by Mr. Brown.	Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1694 (1694)	Wing S306_VARIANT; ESTC R27567	181,183	477

Ludgate-street AN Enquiry into several remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some difficulty in them with a probable Resolution of them In two Parts By John Edwards B. D. sometimes Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge Octavo 2. A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfections of the Old and New Testament With Illustrations of several difficult Texts of Scripture By John Edwards B. D. sometimes Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge Octavo 3. Miscellaneous Essays By Monsieur St. Euremont Translated out of French with a Character By a Person of Honour here in England continued by Mr. Dryden Octavo 4. A New Family-Book or the true Interest of Families being Directions to Parents and Children and to those that are instead of Parents shewing them their several Duties and how they may be happy in one another together with several Prayers for Families and Children and Graces before and after Meat To which is annexed a Discourse about the right way of Impreving of our Time By James Kirkwood Rector of Astwick in Bedfordshire with a Preface by Dr. Horneck the Second Edition Corrected and much inlarged Twelves 5. The Divine Art of Prayer containing the most proper Rules to pray well with seasonable Prayers for Soldiers both in Their Majesties Armies and Fleet. In Twelves 6. The true Royal English School for Their Majesties Three Kingdoms Being a Catalogue of all the Words in the Bible together with a Praxis in Prose and Verse and variety of Pictures all beginning with one Syllable and proceeding by degrees to Eight divided and not divided whereby all Persons both Young and Old of the meanest Abilities may with little help be able to Read the whole Bible over distinctly easily and more speedily than in any other Method with Directions to find out any Word together with an Exposition of the Creed By Tobias Ellis late Minister of the Gospel Octavo 7. An Answer to the Brief History of the Unitarians called also Socinians By William Basset Rector of St. Swithins London Octavo 8. Monarchia Microcosmi the Origen Vicissitude and Period of Vital Government in Man for a farther Discovery of Diseases incident to Humane Nature By Everard Maynwaring M. D. Twelves BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Abel Roper near Temple-Barr 1. NEW Poems consisting of Satyrs Elegies and Odes Together with a Collection of the newest Court-Songs set to Musick by the best Masters of the Age. All written by Mr. Durfey 2. The Princess of Cleve as it was Acted at the Queen's Theatre Written by Nat. Lee. 3. The Amours of Anne Queen to Lewis the XIII with the Chevalier de Roan the true Father of the present Lewis the XIV King of France in which the whole Cabal and Intriegue of raising this Heir to the French Crown is fully detected and exposed Together with the Engines and Instruments of that grand Impostor Written by a Person of Quality 4. A Week's Exercise preparatory towards a worthy Reception of the Lord's Supper In Meditations Prayers and Ejaculations before at and after the Holy Communion Also Rules and Exercises how to live well after it By W. W. Dedicated the Princess of Denmark 5. The State of Innocence and Fall of Man an Opera written in Heroick Verse Dedicated to the Dutches. 6. An Historical Dictionary of England and Wales in Three Parts I Geographical II. Historical III. Political 7. Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady A Comedy 8. Advice to a Young Lord written by his Father 9. The Complete Constable 10. The Distressed Innocence A Tragedy Written by Mr. Settle 11. The Heroes of France being a Dialogue between Monsieur Louvois Colbert Motchevril Sarsfield and Prince Waldeck wherein is contained the present State of Affairs in Europe 12. The Wary Widow or Sir Noisy Parrat A Comedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal Written by Henry Higden Esq 13. The Rules and Maxims of Pleading which will be Published this Term. FINIS * I am apt to believe from what follows that the famous Christina is here meant who as all the World knows was a Woman of great learning and abdicated the Crown of Sweden * He means Charles the Fifth * By Monsieur Boileau where they are to be found at the end of his Satyrs * I suppose he means Monsieur Dacier * That is where Metaphors are natural and the Ideas obvious they may be safely employ'd in our Author's Opinion * We know him better in England under the name of Boileau Reflect 1. * Nulla Major Principis Gloria quam fecisse felicem satisfecisse Inopi * As Alexander has been by Seneca Lucan and Quintus Curtius a Salus populi superma lex esto b Maxime metuenda desperantium audacia tanquam acerrimi morientium belluarum Morsus c Illud vero minime ferendum est quod quidam tradiderunt j●re gentium arma recte sumi ad imminuendam potentiam crescentem quae nimium aucta ●●cere posset 〈…〉 vim pari posse ad vim inferendam jus tribu●t ab omni aequitatis ratione ab horret Gror. li. 2. cap. 1. Sect. 17 Jure Bell. Pacis b Non militandum Christiano cui nec litigare quidem liceat Tertul. lib. de ●●●● a Bellum ita suscipiatur ut nihil aliud nisi pax quaesita videatur Cicero de Offic lib. 1. a In poenis quoque exigendis illud maxime observandum est ne unquam eo nomine bellum suscipi atur in eum cui pares sunt vires nam ut judicem civilem ita qui armis facinora velit vindicare multo esse validiorem altero opertet neque vero prudentia tantum aut suorum caritas exigere solet ut bello periculoso abstineatur sed saepe etiam justitia rectoria scilicet quae ex ipso regiminis natura superiorem non minus ad curam pro inferioribus quam inferiores ad obedientiam obligat Grot. de Jur. Bell. Pacis c. 24. b Quod si plus damni evenit reip quam compendii ex bello suscepto etiam justo princeps debet resticuere detrimenta This is the Opinion of the Casuists and even of the Jesuit Diana Panormit de regular part 6. pract 4. de Bello Reg. a Puto Regem qui quae debet stipendia militibus non solvi● non tantum militibus teneri de damnis inde secutis sed sub●●●is suis vicinis quos inedia coacti milites male habuerunt Gret de Jur. Bell. Pac. lib. 3. cap. 17. secr 2. Num. 6. b Tom. 4. cap. 13. Heze'iah 2 Kings ch 18 19.

is that which is between a Husband and Wife when they enter without constraint into the State of Matrimony and preserve a good intelligence on both sides It has somewhat of that Friendship which is between a Superior and inferior since the Laws have declared that Women ought to consider their Husbands as their Masters and that the civility of Men obliges them to receive marks of respect from their Wives only to quit them immediatly and to depend on them by their own choice as they depend on their Husbands by the Laws and Customs When People live together after this decent manner they maintain a continual commerce of esteem they taste all the Delicacies of Love they have the Pleasure of Loving and of being belov'd and even make a glory of this Friendship I am of opinion that it is this mixture of tenderness this return of esteem or if you will this mutual ardour to prepossess one another by obliging Testimonies wherein consists the Sweetness of this Second Friendship I speak not of other Pleasures which are not so much such in themselves as in the assurance which they afford us of the perfect possession of those persons whom we Love Which appears to me so true that I am not afraid to affirm that if a Man were assured of meeting the perfect affection of a Wife else where he wou'd easily support himself under the loss of his Spouse at home and that they ought not to enter into the order of Friendship but as tokens and proofs that it is without reserve Few Persons 't is true are capable of the purity of these Thoughts Thus a perfect Friendship is rerely observed in Marriages at least they seldom continue long The Object of gross Passions is not able to support so noble a Commerce as Friendship After it has produced it and maintain'd for some time the shadow and resemblance of it Indifference Contempt and other new Passions soon arise to efface it Even the constraint one is under always to keep the same Society lessens somewhat the value of perseverance We lose by degrees the assurance we had of being loved We enter into suspicions Jealousies and disquiets and can hardly conceal them in the necessity we lye under of living eternally together From thence arise Mistrusts Complaints and Quarrels The Children are at that time the only Bonds which retain Man and Wife in their duty These are the Pledges and Fruits of their first Affection 'T is an Interest that binds them at the very moment when their Hearts incline to a separation But when a Man speaks of friendship or hears it every day mention'd he is not to understand it either of this first or second kind It is of a Species altogether particular The World would have it only between two Persons that it requires whole years to form it self that Virtue alone is the Foundation of it that it continues for ever that it is a perfect communication of all things In a word that there is made of these two persons a Metamorphosis so general that they mutually transform themselves into one another Authors triumph upon this Portraiture They even give it finer Colours than I do Notwithstanding I believe I may without rashness assert that these ingenious Painters who afford us such Illustrious Coppies of Friendship never saw the Originals In truth 't is natural for us to take a pleasure in exaggerating matters and the first moment we begin a Book or a Discourse we forget that our Heroes are but men and that we speak to men But a man must avoid likewise to take for friendship I know not how many Correspondences he meets in the course of life which certainly deserve not this glorious Title To partake together in some diversion to be engaged sometimes in the same Conversations to meet often at Court or in the City such kind of obligations cannot assure one of a solid Friendship All these things generally happen by pure chance and 't is Fortune that produces these different occassions What share can the Heart enjoy herein but the interest of some pleasure and can this Interest beget a truly perfect Friendship 'T is true we love persons that may be useful to us or such as are pleasant and agreeable we are delighted to be where they are and give them a favourable reception We have also more particular regards for those that have the Reputation of having great numbers of Friends of being Men of Intrigue and of being able to serve us upon occasion For to speak agreeable things and to be capable of doing useful ones are two great steps towards an introduction into the most inaccessible Hearts But 't is no less true that those persons whom we only know upon this bottom should not put that Friendship we entertain for them to too strong proof A Man will hardly purchase the pleasure which the Conversation of a Wit affords and it is ordinary enough to refer to others the care of serving a person who doth nothing but divert us If we make but a little reflection upon this we shall observe that it is this sort of Friendship which as imperfect and as common as it is doth not cease to form a Civility by which our Conduct is regulated and which is as it were the Foundation of the publick Peace 'T is that which instructs us how to live and this manner of living comprehends an infinite number of small inferior Duties without which all things would be in confusion A friendship more exact is prodigious whose Examples are so rare that a Man may easily compute them The Character of Madam the Countess of d'Olonne By Mr. BROWN I Don't expect to be more successful at your Character than our Painters have been at your Portraiture where I may safely say the best performers have lost their Reputation Till now we never beheld any Beauties so finished but they were obliged to these Masters either for bestowing some new graces upon them or else for concealing some of their defects Only you Madam are above those Arts whose peculiar Character it is to flatter and embellish They never took the Pencil to copy you without a shameful foil to their skill and doing an infinite injustice to the Original in short without making so accomplished a Person as your self lose as many advantages as they usually give to those that possess them not If you have not been much obliged to the Painters you are much less I am sure to the curiosity of your Dress You owe nothing either to the skill of other People or to your own Industry And may safely rely upon Nature for the care she takes of you As there are very few Persons upon whom negligence sits well I would advise them not to depend too much upon it To say the truth the generality of our Ladies are not pleasing any farther than their Habits make them so Every thing they employ to set them off conceals some defect On the other hand the