Moral gallantry. A discourse, wherein the author endeavours to prove, that point of honour (abstracting from all other tyes) obliges men to be virtuous. And that there is nothing so mean (or unworthy of a gentleman) as vice. / By Sir George Mackenzie.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mackenzie, George, 1636-1691.

Contributor:

• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Virtue--Early works to 1800.
• Virtue.
• Ethics--Early works to 1800.
• Ethics.

Penn Provenance:

• Norris, Isaac, 1701-1766 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
• Norris, Joseph Parker, 1847-1916 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 22, 25-38 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm

Other Title:

• Moral paradox
• Consolation against calumnies

Fingerprint:

e,de ste, n-ir tira (3) 1669 (A)

Place of Publication:

Edenburgh ; Re-printed at London : by J. Streater, 1669.

Notes:

• Title within double-ruled border.
• "Licensed Aug. 25. 1668. Roger L'Estrange" (A1v).
• "A moral paradox: maintaining, that it is much easier to be virtuous than vitious", has separate dated title page (leaf G3) and pagination; register is continuous.
• Leaf G3 is a cancel.
• With a final blank leaf.
• "A consolation against calumnies" (caption title) begins new pagination on leaf L2r.
• Signatures: A-L¹² M⁶ N².
• This edition ends with "Finis" on p. 38 (N1v).

Local Notes:

• Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris.
• Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Jos. Parker Norris.

Cited in:

• Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M176
• ESTC, R19338

OCLC:

228724261