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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The Libertines themselves do not renounce Religion; but they do not live according to its Laws and Maxims. Men know what they ought to believe, and likewise what they ought to do; and oftentimes they stop there: But do not you content your self to believe, and defer, 'till your riper years, that which you are at all times oblig'd to practice.