Enchiridion Ethicum
Translated by Edward Southwell
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The opening
Chap. I. What Ethicks or Morals are.
What Ethicks or Morals are.
ET h i c k s are defined to be the Art of Livinrr -well and happily.
I. We underftand in this place, by Art3 a methodical Knowledge of fiich Precepts as are confentaneous one to another. And therefore, fince Ethicks are that Art we defign to treat of, our Precepts mud all partake thereof, and all conduce thereunto; for elie they would not be confentaneous. So that you are not to expect Precepts how to difpute% but how to live, and how to be happy.
The Reaibn why in the Definition above we call it, The Art of Living both -well and hapftly, is, becaufe a Man may live well, and yet not altogether fo happily; which two differing kiipds of Life the Pythagoreans did rightly diftinguiih; for by their Do&rin, it is one thing to be perfect according to Nature, another according to Life.
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About this edition
- The words
- Edward Southwell's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 8 places
- The library's stamp on the scanned copy (University of Florida Libraries, College Library) (5 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 4 places
- Archive.org's digitization notice (8 blocks)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
- The library's date-due slip, book card and barcode label at the end of the scan (25 blocks)
- Specks and rules in the margin, read by the OCR as marks only (no letter or digit) (3 blocks)