A treatise of moral and intellectual virtues wherein their nature is fully explained and their usefulness proved, as being the best rules of life ... : with a preface shewing the vanity and deceitfulness of vice / by John Hartcliffe ...
- Title
- A treatise of moral and intellectual virtues wherein their nature is fully explained and their usefulness proved, as being the best rules of life ... : with a preface shewing the vanity and deceitfulness of vice / by John Hartcliffe ...
- Author
- Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for C. Harper ...,
- 1691.
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- Subject terms
- Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Link to this Item
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- Cite this Item
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Contents
- imprimatur
- title page
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To the Right Honorable CHARLES Earl of
Maclesfeld, Lord President and Lord Lieutenant of the Principality ofWales, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties ofGlouce∣ster, Hereford, andMonmouth, and of the City and County ofBristol, and one of the Lords of Their Majesties most Honorable Privy Council. - THE PREFACE To the READER.
- ERRATA.
- CONTENTS.
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Of the NATURE of ETHICKS.
- FORTITUDE.
- Of TEMPERANCE.
- Of LIBERALITY.
- Of MAGNIFICENCE.
- Of MAGNANIMITY.
- Of MEEKNESS or gentleness of SPIRIT.
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Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES,
Comitas, Veritas, Urbanitas. First, - Of VERACITY.
- Of URBANITY.
- Of MODESTY.
- Of TACITURNITY, or the Go∣vernment of our Speech.
- Of JUSTICE.
- Of Intellectual VIRTUES.
- Of ART.
- Of PRUDENCE.
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Of
Understanding, Science, andWisdom. - An Enquiry into the Causes of the decay of MORAL VIRTUES.
- The Conclusion drawn from all the Premisses.
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