The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
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The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
Author
Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Publication
London :: Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain,
1699.
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Subject terms
Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
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"The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CAP. 8. The End.
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Q. What is the end?
A. The end is the cause for whose sake the thing is.
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Q. Give example?
A. To Physical things the proposed End is man to man, God. There is some chief good and last end of all Arts: as to speak well, of Grammer: to plead well, of Rethorick: to dispute well, of Logick.
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Q. Give example out of some Poet?
A. Aeneid. 1. Juno assumeth the end of Marriage, when as she promiseth Deipopeia to Eolus, to wit, for solace and childrens sake.
Nimphs full fourteen I have of bodies rareBut who so is most beautiful and fair,Even Deiopeia I to thee do giveHer year in marriage state with thee to live?Thee to reward for thy love unto me,And cause thine off-spring beautiful to be.
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Q. Give an example out of some Orator?
A. Cicero pro Lig. urgeth Tubero his accuser, when as he presseth the end of the Wars taken up against
Cesar. And truly
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(saith he) he is come forth armed against Caesar himself. But what did this Tubero his sword do in the Pharsalian Army? whose sides did the sharp point aim at? who was to feel the force of thy weapon: where was thy minde, eyes, hands, cou∣rage? what didst thou desire? what didst thou wish?
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