. 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 . f the Vertuousand the Learned bid us welcome, we are happy above our Expectations. b z Th* viii The Tranflators PREFACE. The fir ft Thing 1 learn d was, That Imufi die; Religion and Phi lof op hyJ found to be the only Things that could render that Thought agreeable,and not dreadful to me. 1 am not vain enough to imagine that 1 fhatlget Honour by
. 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 . f the Vertuousand the Learned bid us welcome, we are happy above our Expectations. b z Th* viii The Tranflators PREFACE. The fir ft Thing 1 learn d was, That Imufi die; Religion and Phi lof op hyJ found to be the only Things that could render that Thought agreeable,and not dreadful to me. 1 am not vain enough to imagine that 1 fhatlget Honour by [this Tranflation : but I am in hopes that I may do good,and that I may, by this Work, fhow how much I love and honour Vertue. I have been obliged (many of the Difcourfes of this Book at the begin-ning being very intricate, and little diverting) fometimes to turn and addto many of the Sentences, yet without altering the Deftgn of MonfieurGomberville, who feems to have adapted the Senfe and Eloquence of eachDifcourfe to the Time of Life it treats of; Jo that when he comes to jpeakof Bufinefs, Solitude, and Death, he. generally fhines mo ft. This I men-tion^ to avoid Cenfure from thofe who perfectly under/land the French. Thomas Manington Gibbs,. am
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