Antiquity; or the wise instructer. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite Variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, Divine, Moral, Historical, Poetical, and Political

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Antiquity; or the wise instructer. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite Variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, Divine, Moral, Historical, Poetical, and Political