ESSAY XXIV.
A Dulation and Pride kept equal pace together.
Says D'Ablancourt, Servile and Proud both together.
Flatterers (I mean the Flatterers in Courts of Princes) are for the most part
The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras'd and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D'Ablancourt. Done out of French.
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"The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras'd and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D'Ablancourt. Done out of French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62449.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Tainted with two sorts of Vices, which seem however to be contrary to each o∣ther; that is to say, Servility and Pride. They are flexible pliant, and obsequious to their Prince, but arrogant and haughty toward their Inferiours. And this was the meaning of Tacitus, where he says, that Mucianus was an Intermixture of Affability, and Arrogance: And of what the Orator Passienus said of Caligula, who had been a most Servile Flatterer of Tibe∣rius, that there was never known a bet∣ter Slave nor a worse Master. Plutarch also records in Sylla's Life, That he al∣ways humbled himself to those with whom he had to do; but expected Ado∣ration from those that had to do with him; so that it was hard to say of him, which of the two were his chiefest Ex∣cellency, his Flattery, or his Pride.