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A49151 Of liberty and servitude translated out of the French into the English tongue, and dedicated to Geo. Evelyn, Esquire.; De la liberté et de la servitude. English La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 1583-1672.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. 1649 (1649) Wing L302; ESTC R1325 26,155 156

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odious and blame worthy were I but so inconsiderate as to make use of them Truly there is nothing which the most glorious Potentates ought so much to detest as a flatterer which ascribeth to them such extravagant borrowed Encomions when as they merit nothing but such as are proper and veritable And therefore it was that Lysippus boldly affirmed he had more honoured Alexander representing him holding a speare in his hand than Apelles who had painted him brandishing fulminating the lightning like Iove himselfe And indeed we read in the History of this great Conqueror that he laughed at a certaine Artist who had the vanity to undertake of the Mountaine Athos to carve our the figure of Alexander if hee would but have given him commission as also how on a time he cast the booke of Aristotle into the river which he passed as unworthy because of some ridiculous and incredible exploits wch he writ that Alexander had performed in a duell against King Porus wherein he was never yet engaged Attila was touched with the like resentment when he condemned to the fire in Pavia the verses of a certaine Poet for that to render the Pedegree of this Scourge of God the more illustrious he had derived it from so farr till he extracted his descent even from the immortall Essences themselves And verily they had in my opinion good reason so to treate them For my part I esteeme modesty to be one of the most essentiall parts of Praise nor should I beleeve I had yet rendered all the honour and respect which I owe unto these Heroes and to our great Le●is were it not that the silence wherewithall I reverence them and which I doe voluntarily impose on my selfe composed the better part of their Praise The Conclusion BEhold here Melpoclitus what hath so often traversed my thoughts and of which I verily perswade my selfe the meditation will not be altogether fruitlesse in the necessity which sometimes engageth us to accommodate with the nevitable subjections of life For if it be true that to affirme ones selfe free we ought to be exempt from all kind of eorporall and Mentallc servitude if there be no man who may challenge a right of attributing that liberty solely to himself since very Kings themselves be not enfranchised from certaine duties which doe most strickly oblige them to their people If those Philosophers who would be esteemed in this respect Paramount all Crownes and Diademes have rendred themselves slaves to vanity as wel as other men are of their Passions If I say the servitude of the Court diametricaly opposite to the Philosophique liberty captivate such a world of people accordingly as we are compelled to demonstrate may we not then well conclude that there is not any Person who is absolutely free which thing being so every one ought to satisfie himselfe in that condition of life to the which he findeth himself engaged or it may be attached unto although happily he therein find likewise some species of subjection since that in fine we are all obliged quietly to acquiesce upon that which the Divine Providence hath determine● on this poynt of our LIBERTY FINIS Reader The absence of the Translator whilst the Booke was in Presse and many errours of the Amanuensis request thee either to pardon these Errata following or else correct them thus Page 6. line 13. for elation read elevation p. 12. l. 4. dele have p. 18. l. 10. r. is repugnant p. 27. l. 16 dele great p. 30. l. 9. for They r. The Ib. l. 15. r. to renounce p. 32. l. 4. for those rude Masters r. those c. p. 45. l. 8. dele a. p. 47. l. 1. for importaned r. imported p. 58. l. 14. for disirrregular r. disregular p. 65. l. 5. for incognite r. incognite p. 66. l. 14. for Genius's r. Geniuses Mat. 26. 24. Claudian Dion Chrys. or ult. L 1. c. 23. l. 2. c. 5. Mendes Pint. c. 98. Sum. par 1. qu. 63. ar. 3. D. Hier. s. c. 4 ad Eph. Plato l. 6. de leg. .2 Hist. .19 de Civit. dei c. 15 Gen. c. 9. Non bene pro toto Liber●as venditur auro Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest Epist. 42. Arr. l. 2. c. 1. 26. l. 4 c. 1. Plutar. des com conc. contra les Stoiq c. 35. de vita Pyth. L. 2. hist. 8. de Rep ibi Fic Paulus 2. ad cor. c. 3. v. 17 Paulus 2. ad Cor. c. 3. v. 17 Iob c. 11. v. 12. Ep. 37. Praes. ad l. ● nat. qu. Ep. 17. 29. Iul. Capitol in Ant. Pio. Herod l. 2. Ecce res magna habere imbecilitatem hominis securitatem Dci Sen. Ep. 54. L. 7. Contra celsum L. 7. de benes c. 8. 13. Toto fui illi experiendus Imperio Apo. 1. 2. L. 5. de be●●f c. 6. L. de miser Curialium 1. ● 10 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gul. ●● L. ib. 6. Euseb. l. 4. de vit. Const. c. 4. P. 61. Lib. 1. 3. L. 3. de ira c. 14. c. 7. c. 12. c. 25. Lucian de scrib hist.