. The doctrine of morality : or, A view of human life, according to the stoick philosophy : exemplify'd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret, engraver to the Late French King, with an explanation of each plate . Tel far un fentiment brutal, Croit donnant tout à la Nature ;Eviter le chemin fatal, Qui nous meine à la dans la PietéTrouver un lieu de feureté ;Contre les trois fœurs homicides. Us fe trompent trépas devance les rides, Ou les fuit infailliblement. Some, by a fenfelefs Notion led, believe,That they can Life prol
. The doctrine of morality : or, A view of human life, according to the stoick philosophy : exemplify'd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret, engraver to the Late French King, with an explanation of each plate . Tel far un fentiment brutal, Croit donnant tout à la Nature ;Eviter le chemin fatal, Qui nous meine à la dans la PietéTrouver un lieu de feureté ;Contre les trois fœurs homicides. Us fe trompent trépas devance les rides, Ou les fuit infailliblement. Some, by a fenfelefs Notion led, believe,That they can Life prolong, themfelves deceive,And gratifying every Senfe, to try,To fence off Death, or fubtly pafs it in Prayer place their Security,Hoping the Gods wont let the Pious die-Alike deluded, Death will foon oertake,Of Young and Old he does no difference make. Ddd I 194 The DoBrine of MORALITY; of, The Explanation of the Thirty-fifth Plate. Le Vieillard ne doit penfer qua mourir. .XfyJgfApuiJ??. tothiîik of nQihjngbiit dying. v#^se*^ m. HE Man before you truly repre-fents the major part of is an otd Sinner, who from theAge of twenty has made an equalCommerce of his Conference and hitfMoney.;, He is known in all Pla-ces, \\ here Ufury is fuffered. Thereis not .a Banker that has notfome of his Bills,nor fcarcea Ship in which he hasnot a Part; norFarmer cf the Revenues, that is no^t in his Books ;ôr any Bttlipefs, that a Man of any figure is con-cern ci- in, in -which he is not interested. By thefeilluftrious Ways he is become Mailer of im-hienfe. Riches, which, makes him pafs with theVulgar for a Man of Worth. He is how arrivedat that unhappy time of Life, in which he cannotmake the Ufe he defires of this ili-gotten nevertheefs endeavours to prolong his Life, orat•leaft to .perpetuate, his Name, by undertakingthings that: will continue long. He takes àWife young; and handfome, when fhe is, alas !an ufelèfs Trèafure to him.» He, keeps a good Ta-bl
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