Contains the LIVES OF

  Motteux
  Manley Mrs.
  Needler
  Hughes
  Prior
  Centlivre Mrs.
  Brady
  Stepney
  Pack
  Dawes Arch.  York
  Congreve
  Vanbrugh
  Steele
  Marvel
  Thomas Mrs.
  Fenton
  Booth
  Sewel
  Hammond
  Eusden
  Eachard
  Oldmixon
  Welsted
  Smyth More
  Dennis
  Granville L. Lansdowne
  Gay
  Philip D. Wharton
  Codrington
  Ward
  L’Estrange
  Smith Edmund
  De Foe
  Rowe Mrs.
  Yalden
  Mitchel
  Ozell

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Just Published,

Dedicated to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield.

Correctly printed in a neat Pocket Volume (Price Bound Three Shillings,)

The Second Edition of

Les MOEURS; or, manners.  Accurately Translated from the French.  Wherein the Principles of Morality, or Social Duties, viz.  Piety, Wisdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Love, Friendship, Humanity, &c. &c. are described in all their Branches; the Obligations of them shewn to consist in our Nature, and the Enlargement of them strongly enforc’d.  Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth to a Child, scarcety entitles them to that honourable Name, without a strict Discharge of Parental Duties; the Friend will find, there are a thousand other Decorums, besides the doing of a Favour, to entitle him to the tender Name of Friend; and the Good natur’d Man will find, he ought to extend that Quality beyond the Bounds of his own Neighbourhood or Party.

The Whole wrote in a manner entirely New and Entertaining, and enliven’d with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited to instill the Principles of all Social Virtues into tender Minds.

Printed for W. Johnston at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.  The lives of the poets.

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PETER MOTTEAUX,

A French gentleman, born and educated at Rohan, in Normandy.  He came over into England, was a considerable trader, and resided here many years.  He is said to have possessed no inconsiderable share of wit, and humour; and, besides a translation of Don Quixote, several Songs, Prologues and Epilogues, together with a Poem on Tea, dedicated to the Spectator, (see Vol.  VII.  Numb. 552) he is author of the following dramatic pieces.

1.  Love’s a Jest, a Comedy; acted at the new Theatre, in little Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1696.  In the two scenes, where love is made a jest, some passages are taken from Italian writers.

2.  The Loves of Mars and Venus; a Masque set to Music, performed at the Theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 1696; dedicated to colonel Codrington.  The story from Ovid.