The Art of Knowing Ones Self: or, a Diligent Search after the Springs of Morality. The First [-Second] Part. Written in French by the Famous Pierre Boher. Translated into English by P. H.

ABBADIE, Jacques (1654-1727). HANBURY, P, translator.

Edité par London, Edward Jones for Richard Bentley, 1696.

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Second Edition in English. in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, yellow morocco label lettered in gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester and the recent booklabel of Arnold Muirhead. 12mo (160 x 95 mm), pp. [xii], small errata slip, 151, [1]; [vi], 201, [1] errata; title pages within double ruled border, the first errata slip (58 x 68 mm) bound in between the final contents leaf and the opening text of the first volume, the errata to the second part printed on the verso of the final leaf, The first work by Jaques Abbadie, Calvinist preacher and soldier, prolific writer of religious, political and courtesy books. Written at the Battle of the Boyne, where Abbadie was serving in William of Orange?s retinue, it became a hugely popular text and was published numerous times, in several languages and across the Continent. Published originally in French as L?Art de se connoître soi-même, 1692, the English translation was first published in Oxford by Leonard Lichfield for Henry Clements and John Howell, 1695. Interestingly, Wing lists many of Abbadie?s works both in their original French and in their English translations, although this work is listed only in English, albeit in several editions. Abbadie accompanied Marshal Schomberg to England in 1688 and settled in London, becoming minister of the French church of the Savoy in 1689. He failed in the preferment which he sought in the English church, despite the patronage of William III, and spent his time between England and Ireland, where he was finally appointed Dean of Killaloe. This popular work is an accessible guide to Christian morality, with reference to Natural Law and the Gospel. The final six chapters of this work are devoted to the sin of Pride, which Abbadie classifies into five types: love of Esteem, Presumption, Vanity, Ambition and Fierceness, or Arrogance. Wing A46; ESTC r19244.

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• Titre: The Art of Knowing Ones Self: or, a Diligent Search after the Springs of Morality. The First [-Second] Part. Written in French by the Famous Pierre Boher. Translated into English by P. H.
• Éditeur: London, Edward Jones for Richard Bentley, 1696.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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