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 XLIV.
BUT the Seleusences were they,
who out did the rest in Flattery.
—They loaded Tiridates not only
with the Honours of their Ancient
Kings, but with all the profuse and
quaint Additions of later Ages.
Says D'Ablancourt, Seleucia surpass'd
all the other Cities in Magnificence.—
Tiridates was receiv'd with Honours of all
sorts. He leaves out, That Seleucia added
modern Adulation to their Ancient Ho∣nours;
wherein consists the stress of the Sen∣tence.
The latest Flattery is always the most
Ingenious: And this same charming No∣velty
it is, by which she gains and en∣croaches
upon the Favour and Affection of
Princes, that nauseate vulgar Honours
worn threadbare by Custome. Seleucia,
tho' she were then a free Republic, would
needs be so Obsequious, as to surpass in
Servitude all the other Cities through
which Tiridates had March'd. Such is
the eager desire that Subjects have to
Gratifie a new Prince, not so much out
of any love to his Person, as the Novelty
of the Government.
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