Golden Gate Park

Reflections on Morality or Seneca Unmasqued, (trad. by Aphra Behn), London, Printed for J. Hindmarsh, at the Golden Ball over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1685 [d’après la 4e edition de 1675] Moral Maxims and Reflections in four parts. Written in French by the Duke of La Rochefoucault. Now made English, London, Printed for Gillyflower in Westminster Hall, S. Sare at Grays Inn-Gate and J. Everingham in Ludgate Street, 1694 118 Et des textes se présentant comme tels. 50 Moral

comparison. A new relativism set the Now against the Then of the classical world and helped define a clearer concept of France and Frenchness. Comparisons of the Here with the There of new worlds provided a means of measuring the present against a Golden Age which, it was believed, had once existed in the past and, it was dimly seen, could be rebuilt in a distant future. But the comparatist mode of thinking also throve on contradiction. If literature, ideas and even the French language triumphed,

Ergamenes, King of the Æthiopians, having had his breeding in philosophy after the manner of the Greeks, being the first that durst despise their power, took heart as befitted a King ; came with soldiers to a place called Abaton, where was then the golden temple of the Æthiopians ; killed all the priests, abolished the custom, and rectified the kingdom according to his will.” B. Though they that were killed were most damnable impostors, yet the act was cruel. A. It was so. But were not the priests