Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Polite Philosopher, or an Essay on That Art Which Makes a Man Happy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others
TH E Intent of the Author, for I very well knew his Intent, was to make Men afham'd of their Vices, by ihewing them how ridiculous they were made by them, and how impohible it was for a bad Man to be Polite. It may be, graver Books havé been written on this Subj eél, but few more to the Point; its Author being equally skill'd in Books and in. Me'n, in the dead Languages and the living: I prefume there' fore, that his Obfervations will be geneé rally found true, and his Maxims ju?.
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