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.
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Tacitus, Cornelius.
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London: Printed, and are to be sold by E. Rumball, at the Post-house in Russel-street in Covent-Garden,
1700.
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Etiquette -- Early works to 1800.
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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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ESSAY XXXVIII.
NEither was it the Care of the
Senate, to prevent loss of
Honour upon the Frontiers of the
Empire. An inward Consternation
had possess'd their Spirits, for which
the only remedy they could provide
was Flattery. So that altho' they
had several Affairs of higher Impor∣tance
that requir'd their Debates,
they decreed an Altar to Clemency,
another to Friendship, and Statues to
Caesar and Sejanus round about.
Says D'Ablancourt, The Senate troubl'd
and amus'd with inward fears, neglected the
Frontiers of the Empire; and to shelter
themselves under some signal piece of Flat∣tery,
never minding those more Important
Affairs which they had under their Conside∣ration,
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decreed Altars to Clemency and
Friendship, and Statues to the Emperour and
Sejanus.
Under evil Princes the Grandees take
little Care of the Public Misfortunes, as
being solely imploy'd to secure them∣selves.
The more in fear Men are, the
more they abandon themselves to Flat∣tery.
Especially those Persons that live
at Court, or else have high Employments
to lose; in regard their Advancement,
exposes them to greater Dangers then
others. And then again, when a Prince
dissembles the bad Condition of his Af∣fairs,
then it is that he is Flatter'd most
of all; every one affecting to shew his
absolute reliance upon the Fortune and
the Prudence of his Prince.
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