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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS are due to the following-named gentlemen for permission kindly given to use selections from certain translations and texts, each of which is specified in its place as it appears :

Rev. Drummond P. Chase, M. A., D. D., London; Prof. Robert K. Douglas, London; Dr. F. J. Furnivall, London, for the Early English Text Society; Thomas Bailey Saunders, M. A., British Museum; Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London; and James Thornton, Esq., Oxford.

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CONTENTS

OF PTAH-HOTEP, THE EGYPTIAN; FROM THE
OLDEST BOOK IN THE WORLD"

66

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN

KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL," BY THE EDITOR

PRECEPTS

PAGE

1

32

FURTHER MOSAIC COMMANDMENTS, FROM THE BOOK OF LEVIT-
ICUS . .

44

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE HINDU CODE OF MANU

HESIOD'S ADVICE TO PERSES; FROM WORKS AND DAYS

66 THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE;" GREEK EPIGRAM,

64

THE EIGHT PRECEPTS AND TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BUDDHISM

THE BUDDHIST BEATITUDES

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77

79

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE DHAMMAPADA (ONE OF THE
SACRED BOOKS OF THE BUDDHIST CANON)

THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS

THE PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES OF DEMOPHILUS .

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE MAHA-BHARATA (THE GREAT
HINDU EPIC).

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE STORY OF AHIKAR

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS

ARISTOTLE

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM ECCLESIASTICUS (THE WISDOM OF
JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH)

..

CICERO ON THE GOOD THAT MAKES LIFE HAPPY

MARTIAL'S IDEAL OF A HAPPY LIFE, WITH FIVE TRANSLA-

TIONS

143

COUNSEL OF MAIMONIDES TO HIS SON, IN HIS LAST WILL

WELSH MORAL TRIADS

LETTER OF WILLIAM DE LA POLE, DUKE OF SUFFOLK, TO HIS

SON.

DYING WORDS OF SAINT LOUIS TO HIS SON.

MEDIEVAL PRECEPTS; FROM THE ROMANCES, AND FROM

"STANS PUER AD MENSAM

INSTRUCTIONS OF THE KNIGHT OF LA TOUR-LANDRY TO HIS

DAUGHTERS

WYCLIF'S "SHORT RULE OF LIFE

173

178

185

192

199

THE RULE OF HONEST LIVING," FROM HUGH RHODES'S BOKE

OF NURTURE

THE

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205

66

"OLD MEN'S DIALOGUE AND "THE SCHOOLMASTER'S

ADMONITIONS; FROM THE COLLOQUIES OF ERASMUS

ROGER ASCHAM'S ADVICE TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW,

ANCIENT MEXICAN CODE OF MORAL PRECEPTS.

LETTERS OF SIR THOMAS WYATT TO HIS SON

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TEN PRECEPTS OF LORD BURLEIGH, ADDRESSED TO HIS SON.

LETTER OF SIR HENRY SIDNEY TO HIS SON, SIR PHILIP SID-

NEY.

MONTAIGNE ON THE CULTIVATION OF LIFE.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S "INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SON AND TO

POSTERITY

248

LYLY'S EUPHUES ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH

LORD BACON'S "PRECEPTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF ADVANCE-

MENT IN LIFE

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259

264

THE EARL OF ESSEX'S LETTER OF ADVICE TO THE YOUNG

EARL OF RUTLAND, ATTRIBUTED TO BACON

THE ADVICE OF POLONIUS TO LAERTES; FROM SHAKESPEARE'S

"HAMLET

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM BALTHASAR GRACIAN

PRECEPTS SELECTED FROM THE ENCHIRIDION OF FRANCIS

QUARLES

SELECTIONS FROM FRANCIS OSBORNE'S "ADVICE TO A SON 293

PROVISIONAL RULES OF CONDUCT FRAMED BY DESCARTES FOR

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