their Reputation if they pretend to it why should not I scorn them It is an happy thing to be a Philosopher but a very unhappy thing to wear that Character to give him that stile is an affront till the suffrage of most men declare him so and in restoring to that August name its proper Idea you attribute to him all due esteem * There is a Philosophy which raises us above Ambition and Fortune that equals us to what shall I say places us above the Rich the Great and the Powerful that prompts us to contemn preferments and those that procure them that exempts us from the fatiguâ— of cringing petitioning and importunate solicitations and even prevents those excessive transports of Joy which are the usual companions of great promotions There is another Philosophy which disposes and subjects us to all these things for the sake of our Neighbours and Friends This is the better of the two * It will shorten and rid us of a thousand tedious discussions to take it for granted that some persons are not capable of talking well and to condemn all that they have do or will say * We only approve of others for the resemblance we imagin they bear to our selves and so it seems to esteem any one is to equal him to our selves * The same vices which are deformed and insupportable in others we don't feel in our selves they are not burthensom to us but seem to rest without weight as in their proper centers Such an one speaking of another draws a dismal Picture of him not in the least imagining that at the same time he is Painting himself There is nothing would make us correct our own faults so readily as to be able to observe them in others 't is at this just distance that they appear what they are and raise in us an indignation equal to their demerit Wise conduct turns upon two Centers the past and the future he that hath a faithful memory and a vast foresight is out of danger of censuring in others those faults he may have been guilty of himself or condemning an action which in a parallel case and in like circustances it will be impossible for him to avoid * The Souldier and the Politician like cunning Gamesters trust nothing to chanceâ— but they advise they prepare themselves and seem ready to determine they don't only know what the Fool and the Coward are ignorant of I mean to make use of the first opportunity but by their measures and precaution they know how to serve themselves of this or that accident or of several of them together If this happens they get by it if that comes to pass they also get by it and the same accident is advantageous several different ways These wise men ought to be commended for their good fortune as well as wise conduct and chance ought to be recompenc'd as vertue in them * I place nothing above a great Polititian but he that despises him and is more and more perswaded that the World does not deserve his thoughts * There is in the best Counsels something that displeases 't is not our own thought and therefore presumption and caprice furnish pretences enough to reject it at first sight and reflection only forces its reception * What surprizing success accompanies some Favourites during the whole course of their lives what better fortune could support them without interruption without the least disgrace They have the first Posts the Princes Ear vast Treasures a perfect Health and an easie Death but what a strange account have they to give for their past life for the Counsels they have given for those they have neglected to give or follow for the good deeds they have not done and on the contrary for the evil ones they have done either by themselves or others in a word for all their Prosperity We gain by our Death the praises of our Survivors frequently without any other merit than that of ceasing to be the same Elogies serve at present for Cato and Piso. The Report runs that Piso is dead 't is a a great loss he was a good Man and deserv'd a longer life he was an agreeable Man had Wit Resolution and Courage he was Generous and Trusty Add only that he 's dead * That we cry up those that distinguish themselves by their honesty disinterest and probity is not so much their Elogy as a disgrace to the rest of mankind * Such an one relieves the necessitous who neglects his own Family and leaves his Son a beggar another builds a new House tho' he has not paid for the Lead of that which was finishâ—d ten years before a third makes presents and largesses and ruins his Creditors I would fain know whether Pity Liberality and Magnificence can be the Vertues of an unjust Man or whether Humour and Vanity are not rather the causes of this Injustjce * Dispatch is an essential Circumstance of that Justice we owe to others to occasion attendance is unjust The first do well they do what they ought but to say of him that in all his management protracts time that he does well is to do very ill * 'T is said of a great Man who had two set meals a day and spent the rest of his time to cause digestion that he dyed of hunger to say that he is not rich or that his affairs are in ill Circumstances this is figurative it might be more literally said of his Creditors * The Honesty Respect and Politeness of those advanced in years give me a good opinion of what we call Antient time * 'T is an over-confidence in Parents to have too great Expectation from the good Education of their Children and a great Error to expect nothing and neglect it * Were it true what several affirm that Education doth not change the Soul and Constitution and that the alterations that it makes were not substantial but meerly superficial I would yet forbear saying that it would be unprofitable * He that speaks little is sure of advantage 't is presum'd he has Wit and if indeed he does not want it 't is presum'd he is Excellent * To think only of our selves and the present time is the source of Error in Politicks * The greatest misfortune next to that of being Convicted of a Crime is often that of being able to justify our selves such a proceeding discharges and acquits us tho we still remain Criminal in the mouths of the People * A Man is just to some practical rules of Religion we see him nicely observe them no Man commends or discommends him he is not thought of another reclaims after ten Years neglect of all Religious duties he is cried up and applauded for it every Mans judgment is free for my part I blame his long forgetfulness of his duty and think him happy in his Reformation * The Flatterer has too weak an opinion both of himself and others * Some persons are forgot in the distribution of Favours
their presence that the Wine he commonly used was prejudicial to him ordered Wine to be brought him both of Rhodes and Lesbos he drinks of both of them and says they did not in the least conceal their Country and that each in its kind was excellent the first was very strong but that of Lesbos more pleasant and to that it was he gave the preference Whatsoever we read of this Story in Aulus Gellius 't is certain that when Aristotle was accused by Eurimedon a Priest of Ceres of having spoken ill of the Gods fearing the fate of Socrates left Athens and retired to Chalâ—is a City of Euboea and left his School to a Lesbian whom he intrusted with his Writings on condition he should conceal them and 't is to this Theophrastus that we are obliged for the works of that great Man His name became so famous thro all Greece being successor to Aristotle that he could reckon soon after in the School that was left him near two thousand Scholars He was envied by Sophocles Son to Amphiclides and who at that time was chief Magistrate who out of Enmity to him but under a pretext of an exact polity and to hinder publick asâ—â—mblies made a Law which prohibited under pain of Death any Philosopher to teach in Schools They all submitted to it but the following year Philo succeeding Sophocles who was discharged his Office the Athenians repealed this detestable Law that the other had made and â—aying a fine of five Talents upon him re-established Theophrastus and the rest of the Philosophers He was in this more fortunate than Aristotle who was forced to submit to Eurimedon He had like to have seen one Agnonides punished by the Athenians as impious only because he durst accuse him of Impiety so great was the opinion this People had of him and which he merited by his Vertue They gave him the Character of a man of singular prudence zealous for the publick good Laborious Officious Affable Liberal Plutarch reports that when Eresus was opprest with Tyrants who usurped the Government of the Country he joyned Phydius his Countryman and out of his own Estate contributed with him to arm the banished men who entring into their City expelled the Traytors and restored the whole Isle of Lesbos to its liberty His many and excellent accomplishments did not only acquire him the good will of the People but the esteem and familiarity of Kings he was a friend of Cassander's who succeeded Arideus Brother to Alexander the Great in the Kingdom of Macedon and Ptolomy Son of Lagus and first King of Egypt kept a constant correspondence with this Philosopher At last he died worn out with Age and Fatigues and ceased at the same time both to Labour and Live all Grâ—ece lamented him and all the Athenians assisted at his Funeral It is said that in his extream old age not being able longer to go on Foot he caused himself to be carried on a Litter thro the City that he might be seen by the people to whom he was so dear It s reported also that his Scholars that stood about his Bed before his Death asking him if he had nothing to recommend to them he addrest himself to them after this manner Life deceives us it promises us great pleasure in the possession of Honour but Life and Misery begin together which end in Death there is often nothing more unprofitable than the love of reputation Therefore my Disciples be content if you contemn the esteem of men you 'll save your selves a great deal of trouble if it abate not your courage it may come to pass that Honour may be your reward remember only that in Life are many useless things and but few that tend to a solid end I have now no leisure to determine what Sect I ought to espouse but for you my Survivors you cannot too seriously consider what you ought to do These were his last words Cicero in the third Book of his Tusculan Questions says that Theophrastus dying complained of nature that she had given Harts and Crows so long a Life which was altogether useless and had alotted Man too short a time in regard it was of such consequence for them to live long that if the age of men were extended to a greater number of years their Life would be cultivated by an universal knowledge and all Arts and Sciences might be brought to perfection And St. Ierome concerning the matter before cited assures us that Theophrastus at one hundred and seven years old taken ill of that distemper of which he died lamented that he was obliged to quit Life at a time when he just began to be wise He used to say we ought not to love Friends to try them but to try them to love them That Friends ought to be common amongst brethren as all things are common amongst Friends That you ought as soon to trust to a Horse without a Bridle as to a Man that speaks without Judgment The greatest expence that a man can be at is that of his time He said once to a person that sate silent at Table during the entertainment If you are a Man of sense you are to blame to say nothing but if otherwise you do very well These were some of his Maxims But if we speak of his works they are infinities and we cannot find that any of the Antients wrote more than Theophrastus Diogones Laertius reckoned up more than two hundred different Tracts and the suctjects of which they treated the greatest part of which are lost by the injuries of time and the other remaining parts he reduces to twenty Tracts which are collected out of the Volumes of his works there are Nine Books of the History of Plants Six Books of their causes he wrote of Winds of Fire of Stones of Honey of the signs of fair Weather the signs of Tempests of the signs of Rain of Smells of Sweat of the Vertigo of Weariness of the Relaxations of the Nerves of Swooning of Fish that live out of the Water of Animals that change their colour of Animals that are suddenly born of Animals subject to envy the Characters of Manners these are what remain of his Writings amongst which this last only which I translate is not inferiour in beauty to any of those which are preserved but may be â—uperior in merit to any of those which are lost But if any one should coldly receive this moral Treatise on the account of those things they may observe there which are only applicable to the times in which they were wrote and are not suitable to their Manners what can they do more advantageous and obliging to themselves than to get loose from that prepossession in favour of their own Customs and Manners which they not only take up on trust without any deliberation but peremptorily pronounce all others contemptible which are not conformable to them and thereby deprive themselves of that pleasure and instruction which the reading of
true he omits saying A Man of my Quality though he passes for such And there are none who borrow Money of him or eat at his Table which is very delicate that dare dispute it His Seat is stately the out-side is entirely Dorick There is no Gate but a Portico and the People are at a loss whether 't is a private House or a Temple He is Lord Paramount of all the Precinct His Neighbours envy him and would gladly see his fall and his Wives Diamond Necklace makes the Ladies his Enemies Every thing agrees in him he acts like himself in the Grandeur he has acquired and whatever Obligations he lies under by obtaining it he resolves never to discharge them Did not his feeble old Father die twenty Years ago before any mention was made of Periander How can he endure those odious Registers which declare Mens Qualities and frequently make the Widow or the Heir asham'd and blush at their Pretences Would he hide 'em from the Eyes of a Jealous Malicious Clear-sighted Town at the expence of a thousand People who will be absolute in their Precedence at all Funerals and Publick Processions Or would he have us make his Father a Nobleman while he is himself but a Master * How many Men are like those Trees which being already tall and well grown are transplanted into Gardens where they surprize those who see 'em in fine places without perceiving them in the time of their growth and without knowing either their beginning or advances * If some Dead men were to rise up again and see their Arms born their Lands Castles ancient Seats and Titles possest by those very persons wko were once their Tenants what opinion cou'd they have of our Age * Nothing makes us better comprehend what little things God thinks he bestows on Mankind when he suffers 'em to abound in Riches Gold Settlements Stations and other advantages than the dispensations he makes of them and the sort of men who are best provided * If you enter into a Kitchin where they have turned it into Art and Method to flatter the Taste and eat above what is necessary If you were to examine the Particulars of all the Dishes which are prepared for you at a Feast If you observe how many hands they go through or what different Forms they pâ—ss before they become exquisite Meats and arrive at that Neatâ—ess and Elegance which charm your Eyes puzzle your Choice and force you to taste all If you were to see at once all the Variety that comes to a well-spread Table how would you be disgusted and offended If you go behind the Scenes and number the Weights the Wheels the Ropes which make the Flights and Machines at the Theatre If you consider how many Men are employed in the Execution of their Motions how they stretch their Arms and extend their Nerves You would exclaim Are these the Springsâ— the Movements of so fine a Shew which seems animated and acted only by itself You would cry out What Efforts what Violence and not enquire much into the Fortune of the Actors * This Youth so fresh so flourishing and healthy is Lord of an Abby and ten other Benefices they bring him in all together one hundred and twenty thousand Livres a year which are paid him constantly in Gold There are elsewhere One hundred and twenty Indigent Families who have no Fire to warm 'em in the Winter no Cloaths to cover their Nakedness nor Bread to eat their Poverty is extream and shameful Where then is the Division Does not this clearly demonstrate a Futurity * Chrysippus a new and the first Nobleman of his Race wish'd thirty years ago for two thousand Livres a year and this he â—aid should content him this bounded his Desires this was the top of his Ambition he spake in this manner and there are many who râ—member it Some time after he rose high enough I know not by what means to give as much for a Portion to his Daughter as he desired for himself during his Life a like sum is counted in his Coffers for each of his Children and he has many to be provided for This is only something for the present there are more good things to be expected at his Death He is still alive advanced to a great Age and employs the rest of his time in labouring to be richer * Let Ergastus alone and he will demand a Right over every thing that dwells in the Water or marches on dry Land he knows how to convert Reeds Rushes and Nettles into Gold he hears all Advices and proposes every thing he hears The Prince gives nothing to any one but at his Expence parts with no Favours but what are his due he has an insatiable Hunger to have and to hold * Have nothing to do with Criton who never regards any Person 's Interest when his own is to be promoted The Snare is always ready for those who deal with him If you have a desire for his Lands or what else is his he will impose on you extravagant Conditions There is no fair Dealing or Composition to be expected from a Man so full of his own Interest Avoid him he will certainly be too hard for you * Brontin they say retires and locks himself up eight hours a day with the Saints they have their Meditations and he has his * The People have very often the pleasure of a Tragedy and see on the Theatre of the World the most odious infamous and mischievous Actors come to wretched ends * If we divide the Lives of the S.T.P. in two parts the first is lively and active busied in afflicting the People The second bordering on Death is spent in detecting and destroying one another * The Man who has made your Fortune and several more has not been able to maintain his own or secure his Wife and Children's after his Death and though you are well inform'd of the Misery of their Condition you have no thoughts of sweetning it at least you have no time for it being too much concerned in building and keeping a good House of your own yet in Gratitude you keep your Benefactor 's Picture which from the Closet is removed to the Antichamber and thence without any respect into the Wardrobe * There is a Hardness of Temper and another of Estate and Condition from whence as much as from the firstâ— we learn to be inflexible to the Miseries of others I may say without Injustice to the Misfortunes of our Family A good Treasurer weeps not for his Friends his Wife or his Children * Fly Retire You are not far enough How say you I am under the other Tropick get under the Pole in the other Hemisphere Mount to the Stars if possible and you may be in safety Look down you will discover a Man covetous inexorable and insatiable who will sacrifice every thing he meets in his way whatever it costs his Neighbours to provide for himself enlarge his Fortunes and
abound in Riches * To make one's Fortune is so fine a Phrase and so very significant that t is universally us'd it past from the Court to the City broke its way into the Cloysters scal'd the Walls of the Abbyes of both Sexes There is no place sacred or prophane where it has not penetrated it pleases Strangers and Barbarians 't is met with in all Languages and there is scarce any one now who can speak but has learnt to make use on 't * He who has cunning enough to make Contracts and fill his Coffers thinks presently he has a Head fit for Government * To make one's Fortune a Man ought to have some sort of Wit but neither the good nor the fine the great nor the sublime the strong nor the delicate I cannot exactly tell which it is and am yet to be inform'd Custom and Experience are more useful in making one's Fortune than Wit We think of it too late and when at last we resolve on t we begin by those Faults which we have not always time to repair Whence perhaps it proceeds that Fortunes are so rarely acquired A Man of a little Genius may be fond of advancing himself and in such case neglecting all things else he will think on 't from morning till night and then break his Rest with contriving how to effect it He begins early and sets out in his youth in the way to Preferment If he finds any thing oppose his passage he naturally turns his byass and goes on the right-hand or left according as he sees it most convenient If new Obstacles arise here he returns into the old path he quitted and disposes himself by the nature of the Difficulties sometimes to surmount 'em sometimes to avoid em or take other measures as Use Interest and Opportunity direct him Is so good a Head and such great Talents necessary for a Traveller to follow at first sight the great Road and if that is full or crowded to cross the Fields and continue in a bye and a nearer way till by this means he gets again at last into the former Road and finishes his Journey Is so much Sense requisite in an ambitious Man to attain his Ends Is he then a Wonder or only a Coxcomb who by his Riches purchases himself Favour and Advancement There are some stupid and weak Men who place themselves in fine Stations and die rich yet we ought not to suppose they have contributed to it by the least Industry or Labour Some body has directed em to the fountain-head or perhaps chance only led 'em to it They have been then askt Would you have water Draw and they have drawn it * Whâ—n wâ— arâ— young wâ— arâ— often poor we havâ— neither made Acquisitions nor are our Inheritances fallen yet into our hands We become rich and old at the same time thus â—tis rare that Men can unite all their Advantages And if perhaps any Person is so fortunate he deserves not our Envy since he may by Death be so great a Loser rather when we consider his Circumstances and the Shortness of their Continuance we ought to pity him * A Man should be thirty years old before he thinks of his Fortune â—Tis seldom compleated before fifty he goes to Building in his old Age and dies amongst the Painters and Glasiers * What is the fruit of a great Fortune Unless it be to possess the Vanity Industry Labour and Expence of those who went before us and to work our selves in Planting Building and Inlarging for our Posterity * Men open their Shops and set out their Wares every Morning to cheat their Customers and lock 'em up at night after having cheated all day * In all Conditions the poorest Man is the nearest Neighbour to Honesty and the rich as little distant from Knavery Ability and Cunning seldom get a Man excessive Riches A shew of Honesty is in all Trades the surest way to grow rich * The shortest and best way to make your Fortune is to convince People 't is their Interest to serve you * Men tempted by the Cares of Life or a desire to acquire Riches and Glory incourage themselves in their Deceit and cultivate wicked Talents and Knavish Practices forgetting the Danger and Consequence till they Quit 'em afterwards for a discreet Devotion which was never seen in 'em before their Harvests were gathered and they were in Possession of a well-establishâ—d Fortune * There are Miseries which make People Cowards some who want Food dread the Winter and are afraid of living whilst others elsewhere are eating early fruits forcing the Earth and the Seasons to furnish 'em with Delicates I have known meer Citizens have the Impudence to swallow at a Morsel the Nourishment of a hundred Families let who will set themselves against such Extremities Iâ—ll render my self as little obnoxious to the World as possible and if I can will neither be happy or unhappy but hide and secure my self in the Littleness of my Condition * The Poor are troubled that they want all things and no body comforts them The Rich are angry that they can want the least thing or that any one would resist them * He is rich whose Receipt is more than his Expences and he is poor whose Expences are more than his Receipt There is nothing keeps longer than a little Fortune and nothing is sooner done than a great one Great Riches are near Neighbours to Poverty If he is only rich who wants nothing a very wise Man is a very rich Man If he is only poor who desires much and is always in want the Ambitious and the Covetous languish in extream Poverty * The Passions tyrannize over Mankind Ambition reigns over the rest and gives them a little while the Appearance of all the Vertues I once believ'd Tryphon who commits every vice sober chaste liberal humble and even devout and I might have believ'd it still if he had not made his Fortune * There is no end to a Man's desire of growing rich and great when the Cough seizes him when Death approaches his Face shrivel'd and his Legs weak he cries My Fortune my Establishment * There is but two ways of rising in the World by your own Industry and anotherâ—s Weakness * Features discover Complexion and Manners and an Air the Goods of Fortune you may see by a Man's Countenance if he has great or small Revenues * Crysantes a wealthy impertinent Man would not be seen with Eugeneus who is a Man of Wit but poor lest he should dishonour him Eugeneus has the same Dispositions for Crysantes and there 's no great fear they will often run against one another * If good Thoughts good Books and their Authors depended on Riches or such as have acquir'd 'em What a hard Fate would the Learn'd lie under What a Power would then be assum'd over them With what Authority would they treat those poor Wretches whose Merit has not advanc'd or enrich'd them And for this reason they
Equipage and with a swarm of Men in Liveries for which each furnishes his part they triumph at the Park or at Vincenne with as much Splendour as a new Bridegroom or as Iason who has ruin'd himself by his Vanity or Thrason who has dispos'd of his Estate and now sets up for a Fortune * I have heard talk of the Sannions the same Name the same Arms The elder House The younger House and the youngest Branch of the youngest House The first bear their Arms plain the second with a Label and the third with a Label Indented They blazon the same Colours with the Bourbons and the same Mettal they carry as well as they two and one 'T is true they are not Flouer de Luces but they are satisâ—ied and perhaps believe in their Hearts their Bearings as honourable They have 'em in common with Persons of the first Quality we see 'em in their Windows in their Chappels on the Gates of their Castle on the Pillars of their Seat of Justice where many a Man is condemned to be hang'd who only deserv'd Banishment You see 'em on their Moveables and Immoveables they are sown up and down on their Coaches and their Liveries are as remarkable as their Arms. But to be plain with the Sannions they should have had a little Patience to have tarry'd till the next Age for in this their Folly appears too palpable and in a few years those who knew their Grand-father must follow him to the Grave They are old they can't live long and who then would be able to say There he kept his Stall and sold his Goods very dear The Sannions and the Crispins had rather be thought extravagant than covetous They tell you a long Story of a Feast or Collation they made at one time the Money they lost at Play at another and are very angry at any one who they suppose have not had the same ill Success They speak in their mysterious Jargon of the Ladies of their Acquaintance they have ever a thousand pleasant things to tell each other and are always making new Discoveries passing amongst themselves for Men of very much Intrigue One of 'em coming late from the Country goes to Bed gets up in the Morning puts on his riding Accoutrements adorns himself with Ribbons ties back his Hair takes his Fuzee and passes for a Sports-man He returns at night wet and weary without finding the Game tries again on the Morrow and in this manner passes every day in missing the Thrushes and Partridges Another of them with two or three Couple of bad Dogs takes a pride in telling one this is My Pack When they are to hunt he is sure to be inform'd of the place of Rendezvous he is ready at the time appointed and one of the first that begins the Chace he beats the Bushes has a Horn by his side mingles himself with the Huntsman and does not like Menalippa say Where 's the Pleasure on 't but is really transported He is in short a meer Hippolitus and forgets Pleadings and Declarations Menander who saw him yesterday on account of a Suit he had in his hands to day does not know his Advocate but to morrow you may see him again at his Chamber where he Judges in weighty and capital Cases encompass'd round with his Brethren whom he informs that 't was not his Hounds which lost the Stag that he is hoarse with hallowing after the Dogs who were in a fault and after the Hunter who dislodg'd him and that he was in with the Dogs at the Death of the Game But the Clock strikes and he has no more time to talk of his Hounds or the Fallow Deer He must then to his Seat where with the rest he is to administer Justice * How great is the Madness of some particular Men who being possest of great Estates which their Fathers got for them by Trade and Industry form themselves after the manner of Princes have their Wardrobe their Equipage and by excessive Expences and ridiculous Stateliness provoke the Laughter of the whole Town which they awhile fancy is dazled with their Lustre till they ruin themselves in the end with striving to make themselves ridiculous Some of 'em have not had the advantage to spread their Follies beyond the Street they live in or to be talkt of out of the Neighbourhood which is alone the Theatre of their Vanity We scarce know in the Isle that Andreus makes a figure and scatters his Patrimony in the Marais If it were at least known in the City and Suburbs perhaps amongst so great a number of Citizens who are seldom in the right there might one of them be mistaken in his Extravagance and tell abroad that he is Magnificent or give an account of the Banquets he made for Xantus and Ariston or the feasts he gave Elemira but he ruins himself obscurely and hastens to Poverty for the sake of two or three Persons who have not the least esteem for him and though he rides at present in a Coach in six months you 'll see he will not have Means enough left to go handsomly afoot * Narcissus rises in the Morning to lye down at Night is six hours in his Dressing-room and as regular as the Ladies in going every day to Morning and Evening-Prayer He is good company and serves to make a third man at Ombre He sits four hours together at Aricia's and loses five or six Pistoles anight He reads exactly the Dutch Gazzette Barbin's Novels and the Mercure Galant He has read Bergerac Du Marets Lesclaches and some Collections of Poetry he walks with the Ladies in the Park or Meadows He is religiously punctual in his Visits He will do the same to morrow which he has done to day and did yesterday Thus he lives and in this manner he will die * There is a Man say you I have seen somewhere and though I have forget where I remember very well his Face There are a great many others who do so too and if possible I 'll in this assist your Memory Was it on the Drawbridge or on the Bastion in the Park or in a Box at the Play-house Was it at a Sermon at a Ball or at Rambouillets or can you tell where you mist him Where is he not to be met with At a publick Execution or Fireworks he appears in a Balcony if there is a magnificent Cavalcade you see him on a Scaffold if the King receives an Ambassador he sees the Procession assists at the Audience ranges himself with the Masters of the Ceremonies and his presence is as essential at administring the Oaths to the Swiss Allies as that of the Lord-Chancellor or Plenipotentiaries 'T is his Picture that in the Almanacks represents the People and their Assemblies He is at every Hunting Match at every Review you see him on Horseback amongst the Officers he has a great Passion for War Troops and Militia He has been as far as the Fort of Bernardi to make
good a grace as Augustus us'd to foot it to the Capitol The Pewter and Brass in those days shone on their Shelves and Cupboards the Copper and Iron in their Chimnies whilst the Silver and Gold lay safe in their Coffers Women were then serv'd by Women they had such to do their Offices even in their Kitchens The fine Names of Governor and Governante were unknown to our Forefathers they knew to whom the Children of great Princes were confided but they divided the service of their Domesticks with their Children and were content to be themselves their immediate Tutors Every thing they did agreed with their circumstances their Expences were proportion'd to their Receipt their Liveries their Equipages their Houshold Goods their Tables their City and Country Houses were all measur'd by their Revenues and their Condition They had however those outward distinctions amongst themselves that 't was easy to distinguish the Wife of an Attorny from that of a Judge and a Plebeian or Valet from a Gentleman They were less studious to spend or enlarge their Patrimony than to keep it they left it entire to their Heirs and past from a moderate Life to a peaceable Death there was no complaint then 'T is a hard Age. The Misery is great Money is scarce They had less than we have and yet they had enough Richer by their OEconomy and Modesty than their Revenues or Demesnes To conclude in former days they observ'd this Maxim that what is Splendor Sumptuousness and Magnificence in people of quality is in private men Extravagance Folly and Impertinence Of the Court. 'T IS in one sense the most honourable Reproach we can lay on any Man to say he knows not the Court for there is scarce a Vertue which we do not imply by giving him that Character * A Man who frequents the Court is master of his Gestures his Looks and Complexion he is profound and inpenetrable He dissembles when he does ill Offices smiles on his Enemies puts a constraint on his Natural Disposition disguises his Passions acts against his Inclinations speaks against his Opinion And after all this great Refinedness is nothing more than the Vice we call Falshood which is sometimes as unprofitable even for a Courtier as Openness Sincerity and Vertue * The Court is like certain Colours which change their kind and seem of different sorts according to the Lights they are expos'd in * The Man who leaves the Court for a minute renounces it for ever The Courtier who saw him in the Morning must see him at Nigâ—â— to know him the next Day or in short to be known himself * A Man must be content to seem little at Court and let him be never so vain t is impossible to prevent it but his comfort is the evil is common to all and the great ones themselves are but little when they appear there * The Court appears afar off to the Country as an admirable thing but if we approach it its Beauties diminish like a fair Prospect which we view at too little a distance * 'T would be difficult for a great many Persons to pass their Lives in an Anti-chamber a Court-yard or a Stair-case * The Court cannot give a Man content but it hinders him from â—inding it elsewhere * 'T is fit a Gentleman should make a trial of the Court but he will discover as soon as he enters there that he is in a new World which is wholly unknown to him Where Politeness and Vice divide the Government and where Good and Evil are equally useful for his Advancement * The Court is like a Marble Structure I mean 't is compos'd of Men very hard but very polite * A great many Pâ—â—ple go to Court only to come back again and at their return to be taken notice of by the Nobility of their Province or the Bishop of the Diocess * The Embroiderers and Confeâ—â—ioners wou'd be superfluous if we were modest and temperate Courts would be Deâ—arts and Kings left alone if we were void of Vanity and Interest Men are willing to be Slaves at Court to Lord it in the Country It seems as if they delivered out there by the Great that proud stately and commanding Air which our Rulers retail in their Provinces They do exactly what they see done before them and are the True Apes of Royalty * There is nothing disorders a Courtier more than the presence of his Prince We can then scarce know him by his Features his Looks alter and he appears perfectly contemptible The prouder and the haughtier he is the more he is mortify'd because he is at the greater loss whilst a civil and modest Man supports himself very well having nothing to reform * The Air of the Court is contagious it takes at V .... as the Norman Accent prevails at Râ—â—â—n and Falaise we find it amongst the Farriers Controllers and Excisemen A Man with a very little share of Wit may make a great progress towards obtaining it But one of an elevated Genius and solid Worth does nâ—t esteem this sort oâ— Accomplishment â—o nâ—â—â—â—â—ary as to employ much time in studying it however to be in the fashion he gets it without reflection or putting himself to any pains towards acquiring it * N .... arrives at Court with a great noise turns the People aside forces 'em to make way pats some strikes others and tells his name but they take breath awhile and at last oblige him to enter with the Croud * There are at Court the Apparitions of bold and adventurous Men of a free and familiar Character which they discover themselves assuring you their Cunning is preferable to all others and are trusted on their own Affirmations In the mean while they make their advantage of the publick Error or the Love which Men have for Novelty They break through the Croud get up to the ear of the Prince with whom the Courtier sees 'em talking and is glad to be seen himself being for this so useful to the great ones that they are allow'd or at least sufferâ—d without Molestation In a short time they disappear at once rich and out of favour and the Men who just came from being deceiv'd by them are ready to be deceiv'd by others * Here you will see some Men who as they pass by you give you a light Salute stretch out their Shoulders and thrust out their Breasts like Women ask you a Question and look another way speak in a high toneâ— and think themselves above every one in theiâ— presence They stop and the Company come about them They are the Presidents of thâ— Circle have all the Discourse persisting in their ridiculous and counterfeit Stateliness till there comes by a great Officer whose presence throws 'em quickly down from their affected Elevation and reduces 'em to their Native Condition which is less wretched * Courts cannot subsist without a certain sort of Courtiers such as can flatter are complaisant insinuating and devoted to the Ladies
and suspicions difficulties and obstacles He 's fully perswaded that patience and a happy conjuncture will influence their Minds and accomplish his desired ends He feigns a secret Interest to break off the Negotiation tho' he passionately desires its continuance On the contrary tho' he has strict Orders to use his last endeavours to break it off yet he thinks the best way to effect it is to press its continuation After a very great Success he 's very stiff or veâ—y easie according as 't is advantageous or prejudicial and if by a vast prudence he can foresee any thing advantageous to the State he follows it close temporizes and manages himself according to the hopes fears and necessities of his Master He takes his Measures from Time Place and Occasion his own strength or weakness the Genius of the Nations he Treats with and the particular Temper and Character of their Ministeâ—s all his Maxims Designs and most refin'd Politicks tend only to prevent being deceiv'd and not to deceive others * The Character of the French Nation requires gravity in their Soveraign * 'T is one of the Misfortunes of a Prince to be over-burthen'd with secrets the diâ—covery of which would prove dangerous â—ut he 's happy if he can meet with a faithful Confident to discharge himself * A Prince wants only a private Life to compleat his happiness a loss that nothing can render supportable but the charms of Friendship and the fidelity of his Friends * A Monarch that deservedly fills a Throne finds it extreamly pleasant to debase himself sometimes to leave the Theatre quit the Buskins and Act a more familiar Part with a Confident * Nothing conduces more to the Honour of a Prince than the Modesty of his Favourite * No Ties of Friendship or Consanguinity affect a Favourite tho' he 's crouded with Relations and Creatures they 've no place in his esteem he disengages himself and stands alone like a huge Colossus * Certainly the Favourite who has an exalted Genius and a strong Reason must be disorder'd and confounded at the sordid and base Flatteries and frivolous and impertinent Applications of those who make their Court to him and hang upon him like Slaves and Spaniels that stick so close to him he cannot get rid of them even by Scorn and Derision * You who are in great Posts Publick Ministers or Favourites give me leave to advise you Don't intrust the care of your Memory with your Progeny don't expect they 'll preserve the lustre of your Name great Titles fly away the Princes Favour vanishes Honours leave their Possesâ—ors Riches disperse themselves and Merit degenerates 'T is true you have Children worthy your selves and capable of maintaining the Character you leave them but can you promise to be as fortunate in your Grand-Children Won't you believe me Cast your Eyes for once on some Men whom you cannot look on without scorn and disdain they 're descended from the very Men great as you are which you succeed Be Vertuous and Affable and if you ask what more is necessary in answer I must tell you Vertue and Humanity command a lasting Fame and are independant on your Posterity by these your Name is sure to live as long as the Monarchy endures and when future Generations shall walk over the Ruins of your strongest Castles and noblest Edifices the Idea of your great Actions will still remain fresh in their Minds they 'll greedily collect your Medals and Pourtraicts This say â—hey is the Effigies of a Man that dar'd to speak to his Prince with force and freedom and was more afraid of injuring than displeasing him he endeavour'd to make him a generous and good Prince the Father of his Country and tender of his People The Person you see painted there with a bold Countenance an austere and majestick Aâ—r advances in Reputation faster than he did in Years the greatest Politicians allow him amongst their number his great design was to establish the Authority of the Prince and the Safety of the People by the suppression of the Nobility from which neither the oppositions of strong Parties Conspiracies Treasons the danger of Death nor his own infirmities were able to divert him and yet he had time enough to have attempted and begun a more noble Enterprize since pursu'd and accomplish'd by one of the best and greatest Princes in the World * The most specious and the least suspected Snare that ever was laid for great Men by their Servants or for Kings by their Ministers has been the Advice above all things to enrich themselves An admirable Maxim Counsel which is worth a Treasure a Mine of Gold or a Peru to those who have the Address to instil it into their Masters * That Nation is extream happy whose Prince chooses the very same Persons for his Confidents and Ministers whom they would have chosen themselves if the Choice had been in their power * The knowledge of the more particular Affairs and a diligent application to even the more Minute cares of the Commonwealth are essential to a good Government tho' too much neglected by Kings and their Ministers in these last Ages 'T is a knowledge we cannot too earnestly desire in the Prince that 's ignorant of it nor value too highly in him that 's throughly acquainted with it It contributes to the ease and pleasure of the Subjects that their Prince extends the Bounds of his Empire beyond his Enemies Territories that he makes their Soveraignties become Provinces of his Kingdom that he is Victorious in Sieges and Battels that the best fortified Camps and Bastions afford no security against him That the neighbouring Nations ask Aid of one another and enter into Leagues to defend themselves and put a stop to his Conquests That their Confederacies are vain that he 's continually advancing and still victorious that their last hopes are frustrated by such a vigorous Constitution of the State which will afford the Monarch the pleasure of seeing the young Princes his Grand-Children support and increase their Soveraignties in Reversion of seeing them lead an Army into the Field destroy the strongest Fortresses conquer new Estates and command old and experienc'd Officers rather by their Wisdom and Merit than by their high Quality and Royal Birth of seeing them tread in the steps of their Victorious Father imitating his Goodness Docility Justice Vigilance and Magnanimity In a word let my Soveraign be never so Successful let the prudent Management of his Ministers nay let his Personal Merits exalt him to the highest pitch of Glory let my Country be never so Powerful let it be the Terror of all the Neighbouring Nations what should I or any of my fellow Subjects be the better for all these things if I werâ— forc'd to Labour under the dismal and melancholy burden of Poverty and Oppression If while I were secur'd against the Sallies from without of a cruel Enemy I was expos'd within the Walls of our Cities to the Barbarity of a
This way of management is found even in the most vertuous actions and often in Religion itself * Duty is that which costs us most because in practising it we do only what we are strictly obligâ—d to and we are seldom praisâ—d forâ—t Pâ—aise is of all things the greatest excitement to commendable Actions and supports us in our enterprizes Nicius loves a pompous Charity which gets him the Government over the necessities of the poor makes him the Depository of their Income and his house an Hospital to distribute it in his Gates are open for any Man or Woman that has a blue Gown and a Badge Every one sees and talks of him thus and who is there that dare suspect his honesty besides his Creditors * Gerontes dy'd of meer old Age without signing the Will that had lain by him thirty years His Estate fell among several Relations though he had been kept alive purely by the care of his Wife Asteria who young as she was stood always near him comforted his old Age and at last clos'd his Eyes But he has not left her money enough to get her another old Husband * When people are loath to sell their Offices in their doatageâ— or to resign 'em to others they perswade themselves that they are immortal and hope certainly that death has nothing to do with them or if they believe death may one time or other overtake 'em yet their loving themselves and no body else forces 'em to keep what they have * Faustus is a Rake a Prodigal a Libertine Ungrateful and Cholerick yet his Unkle Aurelius can't hate him nor disinherit him Frontin his other Nephew after twenty years known honesty and a blind complaisence for this old man could never gain his favour nor get any thing at his Death but a small pension which Faustus his Unkles Exeâ—utor is to pay him * Hatred is so durable and so obstinate that reconciliation on a sick Bed is the greatest sign of death * We insinuate our selves into the favour of others either by flattering their passions or pittying their afflictions These are the only ways we have to shew our concern for 'em whence it proceeds that the rich are least tractable * Softness and voluptuousness are innate they are born with men and die with them happy or unhappy accidents never cure 'em good and bad fortune equally produce them * The worst sight in the world is an old man in Love * Few people remember that they have been young and how hard it was then to live chaste and temperate The first thing men do when they have renounc'd pleasure either out of decency surfeit or conviction is to condemn it in others This sort of management is however seldom free from a particular affection for those very things they left off but they would have no body enjoy the pleasure they can no longer enjoy themselves which proceeds more from Jealousie than any thing else * 'T is not that old men apprehend that they shall want money one time or other which makes them covetous for some of them have such prodigious heaps that 't is impossible for those fears to prevail over them Besides how can they fear in their doatage that they shall want necessaries when they voluntarily deny themselves of 'em to satisfie their Avarice Neither is it a desire to leave vast summs to their Children for they naturally love no body but themselves and supposing otherwise there are many Misers who have no Heirs This Vice is rather the effect of Age and Constitution in old men who as naturally abandon themselves to it then as they did to their pleasures in their youth or their ambition in their Manhood * There 's no need of vigor youth or Health to be covetous nor is there any occasion for a manâ—s being always scraping up Money or giving himself the least disquiet to save it Such deprive themselves of riches only to lock 'em up in their Coffers This agrees with their years 't is a passion incident to every one that 's old and they would be more than men if it never touch'd them There are some people who are badly lodg'd lye hard wear wretched Cloaths and eat the worst meat who deprive themselves of the society of men and live in a continual solitude who are in pain for the time present past and to come whose Lives are a perpetual pennance who have cunningly found out the most troublesom way to Perdition I mean the covetous * Old men please themselves in remembering their youth They love the places where they past it The persons with whom they then began an acquaintance are dear to them They affect certain words which they usâ—d to speak when they were young They keep up the old manner of singing and dancing boast of the fashions in use formerly in cloaths furniture and equipages They can't yet disapprove the things which serv'd their passions but are always calling 'em to mind How can one imagin they should prefer new Customs and Modes which they have no share in from which they have nothing to hope which young men have invented and in their turn get by them such great advantages over the old * Too much negligence as well as too much nicety in dressing encreases old mens wrinckles and makes em look older * An old man is proud disdainful and troublesom if he has not a great deal of sense * An old man who has liv'd at Court has good sense and a faithful memory is an inestimable treasure he is full of deeds and maxims One may find in him the history of the Age adornâ—d with a great many curious circumstances which we never met with in our reading from him we may learn such rules for our conduct and manners that are to be depended on being founded on experience * Young men are incapacited by their passions for accommodating themselves to soâ—itude as well as the old can * Phidippus old as he is is very nice and effeminate even to little delicacies he eats drinks sleeps and plays by art he scrupulously observes the least Rules he has prescrib'd himself which tend to the ease of his person and if according to his usual measures he ought not to break 'em a Mistress would not tempt him to do it He is almost o'rewhelm'd with superfluities which custom has at last render'd necessary for him he does all he can to keep himself alive and employs the remains of his life in making its loss more grievous Imagine then if he is not enough afraid of dying * Gnathon lives for no body but himself The rest of the world are to him as if they were not in being not satisfyâ—d in taking the first seat at a board he alone fills the place of two other men he forgets the Dinner is provided for him and all the company he makes himself master of the Dish and looks on each Service as his own he never fixes himself to one sort of Meat he
whole Life is imploy'd in and whose most vigorous attention is taken up in sawing of Marble this is very foolish and trivial But there are others more astonishing for they are intirely useless and spend their days in doing nothing this is yet less than sawing Marble * The major part of Mankind so far forget that they have a Soul and launch out into such Actions and Exercises that we appear in the wrong if we believe we speak advantageously of any Man when we say he thinks this is become a common Elogy and yet it raises a Man only above a Dog or an Horse * How do you divert your self how do you spend your time Is the Question asked both by Fools and Men of Sense if I answer 't is to open my Eyes and to see to prepare my Ears to hear to enjoy Health Ease and Liberty 't is to say nothing the solid the great and the only good is slighted makes no impression The Answer should be Do you Game do you Dance Is it good for Man to have a liberty if it were possible so large and extensive that it would only prompt him to desire one thing else that is to have less liberty Liberty is not Idleness it is a free use of time to choose our Labour and our Exercise in one word to be free is not to do nothing but to be the sole Arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone In this Sense what good so great as Liberty * Caesar not being old enough to think of the Conquest of the Universe had no other happiness to endeavour after than a brave course of Life and a great Name after Death he was born fierce and ambitious enjoy'd a vigorous health he could not better imploy his time than in the Worlds Conquest Alexander being too young for so serious a design 't is stupendious that in his juvenile years Women and Wine had not confounded his Enterprize * A young Prince of an August Race the love and hope of his People given by Heaven to prolong the felicity of the Earth greater than his Progenitors the Son of an Hero who was his Pattern hath now told the Universe by his divine qualities and anticipated Vertues that the Sons of Hero's are nearer being so than other men * If the World should continue an hundred millions of years it is still in its Spring and is but now beginning we our selves are not far from the first Men and the Patriarchs and who could distinguish us from them in Ages so distant but if we may judge of what is to come by what is past how many things are there unknown to us in Arts and Sciences in Nature nay I durst say in History too What vast discoveries would then be made what different Revolutions would then happen in the States and Empires of the whole World How great would our Ignorance appear and how slender our Experience that is not of above six or seven thousand years standing * There is no way too tedious for him that Travels gently and without hurry and there are no advantages too remote from those that prepare themselves with Patience * To make Court to none and not to expect Courtship from any is an happy condition a Golden Age and the most Natural State of Man * The World is for those that follow the Court or people Cities but Nature is theirs who inhabit the Country they only live or at least only know that they live * Why do you treat me with this coldness and why do you complain on me for some Expressions of mine in relation to some of our young Courtiers You are not Vicious Thrasyllus are you for my part I know it not but you inform me so your self that which I know is that you are not Young And you that are personally offended at what I said of some great people don't cry out of a wound intended for another Are you Haughty Malicious a Buffoon a Flatterer a Hypocrite I was ignorant of it indeed and did not think of you but was speaking of some Great men * Moderation and Prudence in Conduct leave men obscure To be known and admir'd 't is necessary to have great Virtues or whatâ—s perhaps equal great Vices * Men are pre-engag'd prejudic'd and charmâ—d indifferently with the conduct of great and mean persons a fortunate Câ—ime wants little of being commended as much as a real Virtue and success supplies the place of all Virtues 'T is a black action a horrid odious attempt indeed that Success cannot justify * Men seduc'd by fair appearances and specious pretences are easily inducâ—d to like and approve an ambitious design of some great man's contrivance They speak of it with concern the boldness or the novelty pleases 'em it becomes familiar to 'em already and they expect nothing but the success when on the contrary it happens to miscarry they confidently and without any regard to their former judgmeâ—t decide of the action that it was rash and cou'd never take * There aâ—e some designs which are of that vast consequence and make so great a figure which have imployâ—d the Tongues of Men so long which have caus'd so much hope or fear to several People engag'd in 'em according to their different Interestsâ— in which all the Honour and Fortunes of a man are concern'd these have made too much shew to be withdrawn without being executed How dreadful soever the danger may be that a man begins to foresee will be the consequence of his undertaking He must on tho it overwhelms him the least evil he is to expect is the miscarriage * In a ill man there is not wherewithal to make a great man You may commend his Insight and his Contrivance admire his Conduct extol his Address to make use of the properest and shortest means to attain his ends if his ends are bad Prudence has no share in them and where Prudence is wanting find Greatness if you can Of the Fashion 'T IS a very foolish thing and very much betrays our weakness to be subject to the fashion in our Diet way of Living Health and Conscience Brown Meat is out of fashion and therefore 't is insipid and â—twouâ—d be an offence against good manners to cure a Fever otherwise than by bleeding It has been out of fashion this great while to die by the hands of Theotymus none but the populace are now sav'd by his Pious Exhortations he has outliv'd himself * Curiosity is not an inclination to what is good and beautiful but to what is rare and singular for those things which another can't match 'T is not an affection for those things which are best but for those which are most in the fashionâ— 'T is not an amusement but a passion often so violent that it yields to Love and Ambition only in the meanness of its object 'T is not a passion for every thing that is scarce and in vogue but only for some particular
Of an Oligarchical Gâ—vernment c. 4â— Of those that begin to learn in old Agâ— 43 Of Slander 44 FINIS Pencer †Considering him onlâ— as an Aâ—â—hâ—r Perrault L' Abbe Choisy L' Abbe de Dangeau La Mothe le Vayer and Malebranche * Lully †Mr. Du Harlay * Mr. Louâ—oy †Mr. de Turenne †Pere Mabillon◠†The late Prince of Conde Sons Grandsons of Kings †Cardinal Camus †The Baron of Bretueil †The Duke de Villeroy †Baron the Actor | Madam de la Ferte †Precourt †Filbert * Madam de Bouillon The Counâ— de Tonnerre Mr. D'aubiguy A sort of people who aâ—fected to be extream nice in their Language Written in imitation of Montagâ— Monsieur St. Martin and Mr. Rombus Messieurs Gedias and Harvey * See the Relation of the Voyage to Siam * Marquis of Montrevel Com. Gen D. L.C Lieut. Gen. * v. Pascals Thoughts ch 3. where he says the contrary * Contrary to the trivial Latin Maxim * Several â—r nâ—mâ—s 〈…〉 oâ— Tulips * Several French Names of Shells * Roman warlike Habitsâ— * Oriental Habits * Oriental Habits * Oriental Habits * Offensive and Defensive * False Devotion The Title of Gentleman is held by Patent in France as that of Pew in England This relates to a particular person perhaps to the M de T Putting Money out to use The Judges places in most Courts in France are Offices which are bought and sold. * Not Leucippus the famous Philosopher Zeno 's Scholar There were two others of the samâ— name one a Cynick Philosopher the other â— Scholar of Plato Not the Tragick â—oeâ— * Such as at our Fairs are seen in an open place * A light copper Boâ— in which Lawyers carried what related to there causeâ— * Six Obâ—li make a Drachma Much eat by the Athenians * This was punish'd with death at Athens by Solon's Law from which they had derogated in Theoprastus 's time * As wrestling Fencing c * The Battle of Arbela and the victory Alexander obtained followed by the death of Darius the news of which came to Athens when Aristophontes the Oratour was chief Magistrate * This was before the Battle of Arbela but a very simple business * Arideas Brother to Alexaâ—der the Great * A Captain under Alexander This was a false report Cassander the Son of Antipaâ—er contended with Arideus and Polyspercontes for thâ— luâ—â—lage of Alexders Children and had the 〈◊〉 of it * This was the Custom amongst the Greeks * None but the poor people did so to save Charges The Greeks began their publick entertainments with these offerings * Vsed at sacrifices and made of Flower and Honey * For then the cold in all sâ—asons was tollerable * Which also makes them thicker more serviceable * Places where idle Persons always met * As at our fifth Act. * Like our crying halves * An hâ—â—â—dred maâ— a pound Athens †The Gâ— the sameday they sacrificed either enterâ—ain'd their friends at home or â—ent them some part of the Sacrifice Tâ—eâ—efore it was very unreasonable for him to demand part beâ—ore the Feast was appointed he knew whether he should be invited or no. * The Gr. used nâ—t â—o dance till all the repast was overâ— and the Tables taken aâ—â—y The Greeks used to bring witnesses witâ— them when they paid their Monâ— * To be interr'd out of the City according to the Law of Sâ—lon * The Greeks repeated some fine passages of their Poets and danced after the entainment was over * They did it by carrying a Squil or â— little Dog about the person †Sea Onions The Greeks were then especially very careful of their words * A Parasite kept by some of the Graeciâ—ns The Greeks used to dedicate their Children before some of the Family privately but this person does it in sight â—f of a multitude * This Island had a sort of little Dogs much valued * Which he either made or repeated * Those that would give any thing rose up and offered what they pleased those that would not rose up and were silent †The Legs and Enâ—rails * The Antients used to â—ave their Servants to carry their Money * The Antients never sailed with those that were reputed impious but made 〈…〉 iniâ—iated before they took theâ— on board that is instâ—ucted in the mysteries of soâ—e Deitâ— to renâ—er â—im the more propitious to thâ—m in the Voâ—age †Tâ—ey consulted the Gods by Saâ—r 〈◊〉 or Auguries i. e. by the flying singing and feeding of Birds or bâ— the â—ntrails of Beasâ—s * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Thesâ—s laid the foundaâ—â—â—â— of the Athâ—nian Commonwealth in establishing an eqâ—â—lity amongst the Citizens The Greeks used to sing or recite Verâ—eâ— at their â—â—asts 〈◊〉 by turrâ— * A Great Statue set up on purpose to dart 〈◊〉 * The name of a Slave or Servant amongst â—he Grâ—eks * In derision for the Thracians came to Greece to be Servants or what was worse * They kept Bawdy Houses on the High-ways where they played infamous Pranks