The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday.
- La Primaudaye, Pierre de, approximately 1545- Académie françoise. English
- Date:
- 1618
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Credit: The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![worthy and befeeming this certaine hope,that we (hall one day (by the grace of God) bee framed anew is shat eternall moft bappyandcontented lefe,. Lets therefore acconnt shisworld,and allthe riches thereaf,as a thing belonging to another, as a firanger and nothing appertaining tothole men, who bein Ta regenetated Ly the Spirst of grase,baue profited wellin the (choole of wifedome. Let vs not feeke for Sriendfhippe vponearth: letvsnmoc: bonct after riches,glory; bonowr, end pléafere: which none bait fooles doc extoll, defire and wonder at, Wee are notof thes werld, but firangers onely therein, and sheréfurelet vs fet all worldly things bebind vs,and account thew ‘onvworth 7 of the care of our smimoriall Sonles,sf wee meane not to perifh withthe worldby iayning our felues thereunto, | Let vs forfake st, I Jay forfake st boldly, bew precions feener it bee, that weemay abundantly trealure Uptbat gredt,/weer This coms _ and durable wealth, Imeane vertwe which is honoured, lened,and defired for st felfe onely 5 which ae i the trae and whelfome medicine for difeafed fonles,the ref} of the mind opprefled wsth care, the canfe f m sa ay i (dy the. willof GOD)of thatchiefe Good whereinthe principak ende ofthe foule confifteth, and Herftood of she onely affured gusde which leadeth tothe Hauen femuch defired ofeuery ones namely, the céxten- farh the root sation of minde, Winch thing this prefeut Academy doth net onely fet before our cies, but alfo Fall good Goth faue and keepevs beeing already entred intothis Hanen offafety, agatnftall tempetts, if 4e* wee willuurfelues, and not {pare onr labowr to reape profite of thefe learned and wife inftrastions, that are beere ginen onto vsby the precepts of dottrine, and examples of tbe lines of auncsent vertn- ors andfamons men. Fer firft of all wee (hall learueberebyta know onr felwes, andthe ende of o#r being. Secondly,we (hall be inftracied is goed manuersyand taught how we may line well and bappily in ené- vy ciate and conastion of life whatfecuer, Tea we fall findein the bafeft and lowe/? eftatewhich of the ignorant and cammon/ort of people ts oftentimes called miferable, as much joy and bappines, asa mo- warch can be partdker of ti the fruition of bis greatues,yea much more than be,ifbe bee wicked: becaufe vice snalleftates maketh thee polfeffor thereof wretched,andcontrariwife Vertue maketh ewery condstio on of life lappy. ALercoucr we foal (ee inthis eAcademie,that enery one louing aud fearing GOD may obtaine this ineftinsable good of vertue,audthereb y remaine a Conqueror over the perturbations of his Souleswhich breeds all his miifery,rememsbring this point alwases,fo farre foorth ad the fraile wature of mansatded by the authonr ofall gaodnescanattaineto thie perfection, Wee fhallleavnebcere bow we ought to gowerne ovr felues wifely and dutifully imall huwane altions and affaires;aridin all charges and places whatfoeuer,eitber publike or prisate,wherenntowee (ballbee called, We wmsdy note berethe caufe of the (nbuerfion and rnine of many Empires, E/tatesand Commonwealths, and of tbe glifring foew and glory of infinite others: as alfe the caufe of the wretchedsues, and deffrattion of agreat num- ber of men,and what hath lift vp other sand crowned them with bonour and immortal] prasle.Wee foall betanght bere the gouernment of a boule and farnly the manner of the education @- instruction of cbsl. Arenythe mentuall duties ef married couples ofbrethren, of mafters and feruants,how tocommand, and bow seobey. aie as Wee ial fee beere the order andeftablioment of Policies and Saperiorities:what ts the daty of shé Heads of themyof Princes and G oneruors of nations.as alfo what the duty of their fubietts is. Brsefly, beth great and mall may draw ort from hence the dottrine knowledge of thofe things which are woft meceffaryfor the genernment of a houfe,and of a Comsenon wealth, wsth fu fficsent inftruction how toframe shesr life and manners in the mmilde and patterne of trneand holy vertne, and howb ry meanesthereof (the grace of GOD working snthem)they may rune therace of their duties in soy bappineffe,ref? and tranquilsty of Spirstyand that in the msddeft of greatef? aduerfities, which the wncertatnety and cone vinuall change of bumane things may bring vpon them, Now becaufe the fequele compounded of thé Sundry treatsfes and di(conr{cs of this Academy will (ufficiently inlracl thee inall things abeue mentia ened, as it promifeth inthe fore front and title thereof, | will not dilate this master any farther but onely defire of thee(Reader)pattently to heare thefe Academical fiudeuts, fromthe Grif of thesr difconr{es vatothe laff, Paste Their intent was oncly( as thou mail underfiand more at la rge itt the entrance of tl eir affembly)to geach thermfelnes,and next euery ene according to their abshity,the institntion of. ‘goud mannersyand rals of good lsning,tor allordinary andcommoneftates and coudstions of life inour French Monarchy, s0 the end that enery wseusber of thss politrhe body( brought thus low with enils,and beaten with tempefiuows Storms) mighs omewhat help profit st by their connfels ( inftrutlions, And this thor mail? do( friend ly Reader )ifcbou takeft pains to reade wel,sounderfiandbetter( c which ts beft of al)tofallowthe pree septs in(traction Cr exampleswhich thou (balt find here:as alf9,éf thors bringeft bither 4 good will, cheereful difpolitis void of al malicious enny,which at this day ss comonly srattifed by molt imen of this our age( whe like te malicsous Cefwrers)bujiethelelues rather in fecking out what to bste at, t0 repre- bed in orber meus works,tha to draw ont, to comend that which is good,or toalfay £0 make thé bercer: “a Befides](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30335103_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
