A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…

Name: A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…
Author: Richard Steele

A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons / by Richard Steele ...

Richard Steele 1629–1692London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688

[8], 327 p. · 68k words · Wing S5386 · ESTC R34600

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Imprimatur

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IMPRIMATUR,

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R. M. Apr. 10. 1688.

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THE EPISTLE to the Readers.

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Friendly Readers,

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YOU have here a plain Discourse concerning Old-age. The Design of it is to Instruct, to Warn, and to Comfort the Weaker sort of Ancient persons, amongst whom I must place my self. The Wiser and stronger may find divers things upon this Subject collected here together, which they have met with asunder, and which they know and practise better than I. But that which put me upon this Attempt, was, 1. Some years Experience of Old-age in my self. 2. More Leisure by reason of my bodily Infirmities, and other Restraints than I could have desired. 3. An Observation, that there was no full Treatise in our Tongue upon this Point. 4. And lastly, an unfeigned desire to be some way useful in the World. These

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THE EPISTLE to the Readers.

THE CONTENTS.