. 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 . overty of thisKind effaces iy Time even thofè divine Princi-ples that are imprinted in Mans Soul, and tearsfrom him all Senfè of Honour and Virtue ; andhaving turnd him out of the Path which wemuft afcend with Difficulty to the Temples of theGods, forbids him to lift up but even his Eyes tothat glorious Place-, where they are worfhippd. Improbis
. 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 . overty of thisKind effaces iy Time even thofè divine Princi-ples that are imprinted in Mans Soul, and tearsfrom him all Senfè of Honour and Virtue ; andhaving turnd him out of the Path which wemuft afcend with Difficulty to the Temples of theGods, forbids him to lift up but even his Eyes tothat glorious Place-, where they are worfhippd. Improbis Hor l;b. 2 Magnum pauperies opprobrium, guidvis &facere, &pati : Virtutifque viam deferit ardusi. If Poverty, the worft of Ills efteemd,Obligd Mankind to do, or fuffer ill j If it a Foe to Virtue always feemd ;Turnd us out of her Paths, conftraind our Will, It juftly might a dreadful Thing be deemd. Inpaupertafe nihil mail effe, quifquis modo nondum Every Man, whole Underftanding is not preju-rvetiit in infaniam omnia fubvertentis avariti*, atque diced with deftruclive Avarice, or Luxury, is fen- fible that Poverty is in it felf no 111, Senec. Confol. ad pervertit Helviam. faxuri*, intelligit-i u A View o/Human Life. 89. La pauvreté 11 eft pas indifférante ;Zenon â tort de la mettre en ce rang. ^arI<i vertu, ïame la moins puifaute,Peut triompher de la chair & du fang. Povertys not a Thing indifferent *Zeno to call it fb, was much to blame : It Power has in Minds to Goodnefs bent,Even all vicious Habits to reclaim. A a The 9° The Doctrine o/Morality; or, The Explanation of the Forty-Fifth Picture. La Pauverté ne nuit pas toufiours à la Vertu. ^n^i«^j|, £ voy bien que mes raifons font capables de(3*1 vous vaincre, mais quelles ne le font pas de J3 «a, vous perfuader. Vous navez rien a re- m v v » partir, & toutefois vous n ejtes pas Satis-faits. Voicy notre Peintre qui vient à votre nousprefente un Tableau, quifemble parler en vô-tre fave
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