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Title: The doctrine of morality : or, A view of human life, according to the stoick philosophy : exemplify'd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret, engraver to the Late French King, with an explanation of each plate
Year: 1721 (1720s)
Authors: Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674 Gibbs, Thomas Manington Daret, Pierre
Subjects: Ethics
Publisher: London, Printed for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon
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tione, dolis, fcelere, atque libidine, & ira3Epift. a. Hiacos intra muros peccatur, & extra. Lib. r.Od. 15. Pajlor cum traheret per fréta navibusId&is Helenen perfidus hofpitam,Ingrato celeres obruit otioVentos, ut caveretferaNereusfata. Mala ducis avi domtivi,giuam multo repetet Gr&cia milite,Conjurata tuas rumpere nuptiastEt regnum Priami vetus. Nothing in Camp, or Town, but Vice appears jLuft, Rage and Villany no Vizard wears. When wanton Helen crofsd the Seas and fled,With fàithlefs Paris from her Hufbands Bed,Nereus in Pity ftilFd the angry Seas,Making the raging flormy Winds give oer,And foaming Billows ceafe to lafh the Shore -,Whic^ the impatient Lovers did difpleafe. î ?r. Tiien fung, Fond ^y thou beared with theeHer wholl thy ft o^ and Countrys Ruin be.Tht injurd (Breeks incensd, fhall all uniteTo fetch her back -, both Wit and Force employThy noble Race, and Father to deftroy ;And even tear her from thy Arms and Sight. i Miferables 4 View ofHuMAN Life. 7*
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Misérables Troyevs, par les Dieux immolez. A leurs vavgear.ces legitimes :Naccufezplus les Grecs, Ji vous ejles brûlez. Vofire Prhwe impudique, & Vexcez de vos crimes,Ovt allume le feu qui vous a defole%. Oh, wretched Trojans by the Gods deftroyd,To their juft Vengeance doomd a Sacrifice !Blame not the Greeks, the cruel Flames that rife, And burn your City, youd in vain avoid.Your lhamelefs Prince, and your own Crimes iùf- (ficeTove lit th« Fires, and caufèd your Milèries. 4 The 7 5 The 1)oflrine of Morality; w, The Explanation of the Thirty-Eighth Picture, m$à>%jJù& Vice is a perpetual Slaveryl OU cannot but think well, I believe, of that excellent Method which the &L Romans made ufe of, as Plutarch relates, to deter their Children from Vice, ** which to unexperienced Youth appearsvery alluring and delightful. He fays, to create iritheir young Noblemen an Averfion to drinking, thegreat Men would fometimes make their Slaves Le Vice eft une Servitude perpétuelle

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