Dedicated to the Right Honourable PHILIP Earl of CHESTERFIELD. -་་ Accurately Tranflated from the French. Wherein the Principles of Morality, or Social Duties, viz. Piety, Wifdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Love, Friendship, Humanity, &c. &c. are defcribed in all their Branches; the Obligations of them shewn to confift in our Nature, and the Enlargement of them ftrongly enforc'd. Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth to a Child, fearcely entitles them to that honourable Name, without a ftri&t Difcharge of Parental Duties; the Friend will find, there are a thousand other Decorums, befides the doing of a Favour, to entitle him to the tender Name of Friend; and the Good-natur'd Man will find, he ought to extend that Quality beyond the Bounds of his own Neighbourhood or Party The Whole wrote in a manner entirely New and Entertaining, and enliven'd with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited to inftill the Principles of all Social Virtues into tender Minds. Printed for W. Johnfton at the Golden-Ball ́in St. Paul's Church-Yard. |