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ES 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 enforced. Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth to a Child, ſcarcely 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 enlivened with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited to inſtill the Principles of all Social Virtues into tender Minds.