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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Friends ought to keep the same Silence, and to have the same discretion which Confessors have; the difference is, that the one acts al∣ways naturally as Men; the other not purely as Men, but as fortified by the Grace of the Sa∣crament of their Order which they have receiv∣ed; this is it that makes the first that they do not forget what they should keep secret, but that by imprudence or Revenge they some∣times discover them; whereas the latter whe∣ther they forget a Secret, or do not forget it, the Grace by the Sacrament of Order, makes them act as if they had forgot it, or as if they had never known it.