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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80828	Critical remarks upon the adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses· Translated from the French.		1700 (1700)	Wing C6960A; ESTC R224553	20,327	48

perform'd those Atchievements for which there want examples in Story and the Vertue of that Hero is as inconceivable as Pure Love It is his business to censure the Conduct of an ill King there 's no mercy to be expected he is a Tyrant he has made unjust Wars he has broken Faith with his Confederates in the midst of Peace he has surpris'd 'em pillag'd their Cities burnt their Houses under ridiculous pretences he has violated his Oaths ruin'd his People he has invaded the Rights of God oppress'd his most faithful Subjects he has openly justifi'd Adultery he is a monster abandon'd to his own Obduracy 't is in vain for him to have recourse to the Gods they are inexorable to his Prayers their anger is just ready to thunder upon his Head Monsieur the Poet has pronounc'd the Decree nor will he bate a tittle of the Sentence Well Sir what do you think on t d' ye believe a young Prince to be well plae'd in the Hands of such a sort of Guides Sometimes climbing to the top of a Mountain sometimes descending to the bottom of a Valley never moving upon even Ground to have always a slippery Ice before their Eyes call you this an easy Road to arrive happily at a Throne To what purpose is it to create an imaginary World in order to teach a young Prince how to reign in ours Our Kings are not like Kings upon a Theatre who only enter upon on the Stage to represent fabulous Persons They ought to govern according to the Laws and according to the present time and this is that wherein they ought to be instructed without fetching compasses about and the refinement of Hyperbolical Language You will not deny but that Kings have more need of Judgment and Penetration then other Men for they suffer themselves too frequently to be surpriz'd by prejudice and that crowd of Flatterers which environs 'em is a Rail that Truth has much ado to leap over How then is it possible for a young Prince to walk in a hazardous Country where he runs from Phantom to Phantom from falshood to falshood where he meets with none but Objects capable to seduce a better instructed Reason then his own Did you never spend a serious thought Sir upon these Portraictures so flattering and so apt to tickle the Senses I am certain you would never upon such Considerations expose such charming delusions to the Eyes of your Family much less if you have been call'd to the Prelature would you do it to any other Person What shall we say of those Courtesans of Goddesses amourous even to Transport pensive jealous restless furious and sometimes driven to dispair The devotion of the Cretan Women for Venus and her Pleasures the Passion of Calypso to captivate Telemachus in her golden Tresses and the fruitless Toyls of Cupid to the same purpose You may look upon these things as Trifles if you please but in my Opinion the leading of a young Prince into these slippery places is in some measure to couple his Mind with Superstition and expose his Heart to dangerous Attacks for in short what a strange method is it for the instructing of a Christian Soul to teach it down right Paganism to carry a Disciple into inchanted Places with an intent to infuse into him an abhorrence of Pleasure to expose him to violent Temptations with a design to render his Innocence invincible This is the utmost that a consummate Quietest durst presume to undertake and yet perhaps he would find a necessity of intrenching himself well before hand in his passive Condition to digest his Scruples and to prevent his consenting to the sweet impressions of Objects But youth is not sufficiently harden'd to those interiour Combats to be led after such a manner into the Fire We know it has a far greater inclination to Vice then of Vertue It needs no encouragement to idolize Pleasure rather unless it be of an extraordinary Temper what should incite him to despise it The reason of a young Man is not ripe enough for Truth Age and Experience are absolutely necessary to convince him of those noble and great resemblances and agreements wherein this Truth consists But has the Sense of a young Man sufficient Vigour to resist the Allurements of Voluptuousness Now then to expose before a young Prince the view of Pleasure almost stark naked under pretence that it unfolds the Truths of Salvation and Morality what is this but to enervate his Mind by flattering his Passions rather is it not as if a Physician should give Poyson to a feeble Stomach to procure the digestion of strong Food Is not this to corrupt at the same time that he pretends to instruct This is but a bad sort of Pedagogie however it is Telemachus all over Mentor speaks the noblest things in the World I must confess it but the Author with his Romantick Chain of yolle Stories destroys the virtue of the Exhortations like an old Dotard as he is Mentor preaches up one Holy God Almighty Immense Incomprehensible and Adorable the Author teaches a company of vicious Deities bounded in their Power Vagabonds familiar ignorant and passionate Mentor corroborates the heart against Sloth and Female tenderness the Author does all he can to render it Effeminate Mentor makes Happiness to consist in Vertue the Author makes it always unfortunate and introduces the wicked always happy till Death Mentor would have a King to be just and that he should Sacrifice himself for the welfare of his People the Authors Hero's are two Princes one of which abandons his Subjects to revenge the Quarrel of a Mistress the other Scaperloiters about the World like a Coxcomb leaving his Mother and his Country a Prey to a company of Rivals The parallel would make you stare should I carry it as far as I could stretch it Stay but till I examin the Tomes apart and you shall have more pleasant Encounters to make you merry In the mean time I beseech yee allow me one thing That this Piece being an Ambiguous Contexture of Piety and Superstition of Error and Truth of Figure and Natural of Vice and Vertue of good and bad Sense it favours the Inclination of a young Prince to Evil and is only fit to perplex and confound his Ideas of Good But here you will object and cry this is all but slashing the Air. He that proves too much proves nothing According to your Conclusions Youth must be excluded from reading the Poets and all manner of Fictions and then the Lord have Mercy upon yee for all the Regents of Colledges and Masters of Schools would fall about your Ears and those Pedantick People are a terrible sort of Enemies who are always in Arms and their Lashes will fetch Blood through a Quire of Brown Paper Well Sir let 'em be as terrible as they please their Menaces are not able to terrify me Thanks to my evil Destiny I fear neither Eagles nor Crows But you mistake the sense of