Mankind displayed: or, The history of the little vvorld being a curious collection out of the best authors of the most wonderful and remarkable things that have been performed by men and women in the several ages of the world; together with select observations, philosophical precepts, maxims of state, &c.
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- Mankind displayed: or, The history of the little vvorld being a curious collection out of the best authors of the most wonderful and remarkable things that have been performed by men and women in the several ages of the world; together with select observations, philosophical precepts, maxims of state, &c.
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- 1690.
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Contents
- title page
- THE PREFACE.
- INDEX.
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Some persons have unusual fortune and felicity in their Affairs.
- Persons from mean Extraction and low Fortune advanced to great Honour.
- Various means of the Advancement of some persons.
- Presages to some of good and evil fortune.
- Some persons warned of their approach∣ing fate yet could not avoid it.
- Some have unwarily procured their own death and downfall.
- Some persons very unfortunate.
- Of the Liberality and Bounty of some persons.
- Of one despising Riches.
- The covetous disposition of some.
- The Frugality of some great Persons.
- Of the Hospitality of some people.
- Of the strange Customs of seve∣ral Nations.
- Of Atheists.
- Of the perfidiousness and treachery of a Court-Favourite.
- An Example of base Ingratitude.
- An Example of Gratitude.
- The peaceable, meek and merciful dis∣position of some.
- The patience of some, and their power over their passion.
- Some persons have been improved, and well deported themselves, in their adversity.
- Injuries easily forgotten and for∣given by some.
- Of the bitter Revenges taken by some upon their Enemies.
- Of the light and gentle revengement of Injuries.
- Some great Lovers of Justice.
- The unchast Life of some, and incestuous Marriages.
- The singular Chastity and Modesty of some Persons.
- Of Jealousie.
- Of great Love between some men and their Wives.
- Parents great love to their Children.
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the Reverence and Love of Children to their Parents. - The Love of a Servant to his Master.
- Some Men unnatural to Parents and Wives.
- Some Women are very unkind to their Husbands.
- Many Examples of this Nature. The hatred among Brothers.
- The cruel and bloudy Dispositions of some.
- Severe punishments upon Malefac∣tours.
- What strange Deaths some men have dyed of.
- Some bodies keep long in Tombs uncorrupted.
- How long some have lain in a Trance, and of some strangely sa∣ved from Death.
- Some have eaten Poison without any harm.
- Some persons strangely cured of Diseases.
- Some have used to walk and doe strange things in their sleep.
- Some sleep much, others but little.
- How long one slept.
- Extraordinary things that have happened to some men.
- Some men very compassionate.
- The first Authours of divers fa∣mous Inventions: and the works of some curious Artists.
- Of keeping Secrets.
- Men of Industry and Haters of Idleness.
- Of the innocent Life of some.
- The exact obedience of some to Superiours.
- The Fidelity of some to their Oath and Trust.
- Some persons great Lovers of Truth.
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Pope
Benedict though raised to great fortune, was not unmindfull of his low beginning. - Of Religion, and the Reverence some great Persons have had for its Pro∣fessors.
- Of the several Extents of the Roman Catholick, and Protestant Religion.
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Of the Reverence of some to Clergymen, and Benefactors to Churches,
&c. - Of the early Appearance of Vertue and Learning in some young Persons.
- Vitious youth reclaimed, and after∣wards become very virtuous.
- Reproofs takes patiently, though from Inferiors.
- Some very mindful of humane frailty.
- How highly some prize their Liberty.
- Death received by some Persons with great Courage.
- Some mighty expensive in their Ap∣parel.
- Some great Gamesters.
- Of great Eaters and Feasting, and great Drinkers.
- Great misfortunes befaln Men when drunk.
- The absurd and strange Follies of di∣vers People.
- Of the Abstinence of some from Food.
- Of the inconstant Disposition of some.
- Of Tributes and Taxes imposed by some Kings on their People.
- Of the bold Theft of some.
- Of Persons of base Birth, who have assumed the Names of Illustrious Persons.
- The huge Ambition, and desire of Glory in some Persons.
- Of Litigious Suits.
- The vain-glorious boasting of some Men.
- Of the Art of Painting.
- Some are apt to be guilty of those Faults they have reprehended in others.
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Scorn and Scoffing, how rewarded b
some Persons. - The Passion of Joy and its ill Effects.
- Of the Passion of Grief, and its mortal Effects.
- Of the good Wishes of some.
- Of the Apparition of Ghosts.
- Many have been destroyed unwarily by rash speaking.
- How some have suffered by their own Imprecations.
- Some men very affable and humble.
- Of Conscience and the Effects of it.
- Of strange Recreations some delight in.
- Of the Natural Production of Man.
- Of several strange Births in Women.
- A Woman delivered of a Monster.
- Many Persons have been observed to die on their Birth days. Some Per∣sons born with strange Marks upon them.
- Strange Constitutions in some Bodies.
- How Nature supplies her own defects.
- Of the five Senses in Man.
- Of the Senses and other Observations of the Soul and Body of Man.
- Particular observations on Man.
- The numerous Issue of some People.
- Of the Majesty, Beauty and Gravity in some Persons.
- Of Beauty.
- Of the Signal Deformity of some.
- Of Giants and Dwarfs.
- Of the Incredible Strength of some.
- Of Strength.
- Some Persons of very long Lives.
- Some though aged, yet have renewed their Age.
- Some People have changed their Sex.
- Of the incredible Swiftness of Some.
- Of the wise Sentences of some Learned Men.
- The sundry Precepts of several Phi∣losophers.
- Some few Maxims of State.
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The Contents of the Commission, for the Lord Lieutenant, or Lord Deputy of
Ireland.