• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Essays, relating to the conduct of life : upon the following subjects. Viz. On self government in general. Choice of a Wife. Choice of a Husband. Circumstances of Husband and Wife. Education of Children. The Station of Life eligible. The Friend and Pretended Friend. The Honest Man. Women and their Vices, with Instructions for their Behaviour. Beauty, and Beauties of the Mind. Single Life and Matrimony. Fortune and Chance. Prosperity and Adversity. Hope and Fear. Courage and Cowardise. Passion, and its Consequences. Slander, and its chief Causes. Thought. Flattery, and its Designs. Gentility. Virtue. The Man truly Great
  • Contributor: Jacob, Giles [Author]
  • imprint: London: printed, for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, [1717]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([12],84p); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Conduct of life Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Attributed to Giles Jacob
    Comprises 21 essays
    English Short Title Catalog, T67384
    Price from imprint: price 1 s
    Reproduction of original from British Library