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 7, 2024.
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ESSAY. XLVIII.
BUT Claudius reprov'd the Con∣sul,
as urging his Flatteries a
little too high.
Says D'Ablancourt, A little too concise,
The Emperour reprov'd the Consul for his
Flattery.
Princes have as great an Antipathy a∣gainst
those that Flatter too openly and
excessively, as against those that are too
sparing of their Respect: For the for∣mer
seem to have a mean opinion of their
Parts, and the latter of their Actions.
Of their Parts, as if they thought their
Prince not able to discern the Vanity of
such Hyperboles. Of their Actions, be∣cause
a Prince may well believe, that they
who vouchsafe 'em a kind Commendation,
either can find out nothing worth their
Applause, or else discover much that de∣serves
Reproof and Censure. Witness
that Senator Thrasea, whose silence was
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laid to his Charge by his Accusers, as a
sufficient mark of his dislike of the
Princes Government.
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