Advice to young gentlemen, in their several conditions of life· By way of address from a father to his children. By the Abbot Goussault, counseller in Parliament. With his sentiments and maxims upon what passes in civil society. Printed at Paris 1697, and translated into English.

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Title: Advice to young gentlemen, in their several conditions of life· By way of address from a father to his children. By the Abbot Goussault, counseller in Parliament. With his sentiments and maxims upon what passes in civil society. Printed at Paris 1697, and translated into English.
Author: Goussault, Jacques.
Publication: London :: printed for Tho. Leigh, at the Peacock against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Young men -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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Always take part with, and defend the Un∣fortunate; a false appearance Deceives, and Reports full of Injustice or Calumny, expose them to the Censure of a hundred malicious Spirits, that think to establish their own Re∣putation upon the Ruin of other Mens. And of others that have no other way of magnifying themselves, but by disparaging and villifying their Kindred and Neighbours; and of others who at the expence and loss of their best Friends, would make themselves Criticks, or Devotes, by having something to say against every one.