The Apophthegmes of the ancients taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius and others : collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the ingenious.
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- The Apophthegmes of the ancients taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius and others : collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the ingenious.
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- London :: Printed for William Cademan ...,
- 1683.
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- Aphorisms and apothegms.
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"The Apophthegmes of the ancients taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius and others : collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the ingenious." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67917.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
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TO THE TRULY VIRTUOUS Mrs. Esther Woodward, THE RELICT OF RICHARD WOODWARD Esquire, Deceased.
Madam,
THere being but two sorts of persons fit for the Patronage of such a Book, the Great, and
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the Good; as I have for ma••ny Reasons declined the first so I know my Choice of th•• second to be so Judicious by dedicating this to your Self that I dare adventure to af∣fix my Name to it, which •• have not done to many o∣thers. I will not let loose my Pen to launch into your just Praise, lest it be look'd upon as Interest, or Flatte∣ry; besides, Virtue and Goodness ever carry their own Commendations, as their own Reward, with
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them. This piece is one of the noblest Reliques of An∣••iquity that ever was trans∣ferr'd to us. A learned Au∣thor calls it a Heaven full of Asterismes, a Body full of Eyes, in which if there be a∣ny Defect, it is the too ma∣ny Beauties crowded toge∣ther, and like a Banquet of Sweet-Meats must be tasted at Intervals, lest it prove o∣ver lushious and cloy, and one thing impare the Relish of the other, though each be exquisite in its self. This,
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though but Paper, may perpe∣tuate your Name beyond the duration of Monuments of Marble, or Porphiry, for the Apophthegmes of the An∣cients shall last till time shall be no more, and may your Memory live so too. All I shall add, is, Madam, to de∣sire you would forgive the Weaknesses I may be guilty of in this, or any other thing relating to your self, and that you would believe it a great truth (which I expose to the Worlds Contradicti∣on
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if otherwise) that I am unfeignedly, and without a∣ny mental Reservation,
Madam,
Your most obedient Son and most humble Servant, Iohn Bulteel.
York Garden, this 20th. of Ianuary 1683.