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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descriptionPage 82
ESSAY XLI.
FRom whence Vitellius returning
to Rome, partly for fear of
Caius Cesar, and partly through his
intimate Familiarity with Claudius,
he abandon'd himself to such a de∣gree
of Abject Slavery, that he be∣came
an Exemplar to Posterity of
Obsequious Infamy.
Says D'Ablancourt, At his Return de∣bauch'd
by his dread of Caius, and the Fa∣vours
of Claudius, he only serv'd to Poste∣rity
an example of Ignominious Servitude.
Fear and Favour are commonly the Ori∣ginal
Sources of Flattery. He that stands
in fear of his Life, Flatters to preserve
it; and he that is warm in the Favour of
his Prince, betakes himself to Adulation,
that he may not lose it. And thus, were
it not for Self-interest, there would be
no Flattery.
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