Maxims - Early works to 1800
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Moral maxims By the Duke de la Roche Foucault. A new translation from the French. With notes.
La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- E-books
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The school-Master's repository or, youth's moral preceptor. Containing, a select store of curious sentences and maxims, in prose and verse. Together with the greatest variety of copies in single and double-line pieces, hitherto published. Designed more particularly for the use of schools: Being very proper for forming the Minds of all young Persons to Piety and Virtue, and laying a solid Foundation whereon to build their future Happiness. The whole interspersed with a great Number of Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, for the Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life. By John Tapner, Schoolmaster at Boxgrove, in Sussex.
Tapner, JohnDate: [1761]- E-journals
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Maxims selected from the writings of Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield Comprehending a plan of education, on the principles of virtue and politeness; and calculated to form the man of honour, the man of virtue, and the accomplished gentleman.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldDate: 1796- E-books
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The economy of human life Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. In a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of ******.
Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.Date: 1800- E-books
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The oeconomy of human life Part the second. Translated from an Indian manuscript, found soon after that which contain'd the original of the first part; and written by the same hand. In a second letter from an English gentleman residing at China, to the Earl of ***.
John HillDate: MDCCLIV. [1754]