A discourse of the felicitie of man. Or his summum bonum. VVritten by Sir Richard Barckley, Knight

Summum bonum, or, An explication of the divine goodness in the words of the most renowned Boetius /
by: Boethius, -524

Summum bonum, or, An explication of the divine goodness in the words of the most renowned Boetius /
by: Boethius, d. 524
Published: (1674)

Cato variegatus or Catoes morall distichs: translated and paraphras'd, with varations of expressing, in English verse. By Sr. Richard Baker Knight
Published: (1636)

The grand convention for Englands summum bonum : As it was held by the loyal cavaliers, and the phanatick hereticks. Wherein is proved that there can be no peace nor settlement till the restoration of Charles the Second to his crown and dignities. By Samuel Wall, clerk.
by: Wall, Samuel, clerk
Published: (1660)

The Christian knight compiled : by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
by: Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643
Published: (1619)

The foote-path to felicitie, : Where euery Christian must vvalke in, before he can come to the land of Canaan.
by: Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607
Published: (1608)

[Sir Walter Raleighs instructions to his sonne and to posterity]
by: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Published: (1636)

Sir Walter Raleigh's instructions to his sonne: and to posterity
by: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Published: (1633)

A discourse of ciuill life : containing the ethike part of morall philosophie. Fit for the instructing of a gentleman in the course of a vertuous life. By Lod: Br.
by: Bryskett, Lodowick
Published: (1606)

Politique discourses, treating of the differences and inequalities of vocations, as well publique, as priuate : with the scopes or endes wherevnto they are directed. Translated out of French, by Ægremont Ratcliffe Esquire.
by: La Place, Pierre de, 1520-1572
Published: (1578)

The pilgrimage of man : Wandering in a wildernes of woe. Wherein is shewed the calamitie of the new world, and how all the present estates thereof are crossed with miserie.
by: Johnson, Richard, moralist
Published: (1612)

A philosophicall discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde. Nevvlie made and set forth by T.R.
by: Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616
Published: (1576)

Of that knowlage, whiche maketh a wise man : A disputacion Platonike.
by: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Published: (1549)

Summum bonum: seu Vera, atq[ue]; unica beatitudo hominibus per Christum communicanda, : sex dissertationibus aliquatenus explicata: /
by: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707
Published: (1681)

Of the knowledeg [sic] whiche maketh a wise man
by: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Published: (1533)

Remedies against discontentme[n]t : drawen into seuerall discourses, from the writinges of auncient philosophers. By Anonymus.
by: Anonymus, fl. 1596
Published: (1596)

Here be the gathered counsailes of Saincte Isidorie to informe man howe he shulde flee vices and folowe vertues
by: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
Published: (1539)

Golden epistles : contayning varietie of discourse both morall, philosophicall, and diuine: gathered as well out of the remaynder of Gueuaraes workes, as other authors, Latine, French, and Italian. By Geffray Fenton.
Published: (1575)

Magnum bonum /
by: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901
Published: (1976)

The guide of honour, or the ballance wherin she may weigh her actions : A discourse written (by way of humble advise) by the author then residing in forreigne parts, to a truely noble lord of England his most honour'd friend. Worthy the perusall of all who are gently or nobly borne, whom it instructeth how to carry themselves in both fortunes with applause and security. /
by: Stafford, Anthony
Published: (1634)

The casket of iewels : contaynynge a playne description of morall philophie [sic], diligently and after a very easie methode declared by the well learned and famous author Cornelius Valerius: lately turned out of Latin into Englishe, by I.C.
by: Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578
Published: (1571)

Precepts, or, directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertiseme[n]ts added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes
by: Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598
Published: (1637)

The rule of an honest lyfe, wryten by the holy man Martyne, bysshop of Dumiense, unto ye ryght famouse kyng Myto, kyng of Galitia in spayne. And now (beyng founde in an auncyant copy) is faythfully translated out of the latyn tonge into Englyshe. For theyr sakes that be desyrous to rede englyshe bokes onely for utylyte and encrease of vertue. Here vnto is added a proper booke called: the Encheridyon of a spyrytuall lyfe
by: Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Published: (1538)

Vertues common-vvealth: or The high-way to honour : Wherin is discouered, that although by the disguised craft of this age, vice and hypocrisie may be concealed: yet by tyme (the triall of truth) it is most plainly reuealed. ... By Henry Crosse.
by: Crosse, Henry
Published: (1603)

The philosopher of the court, written by Philbert of Vienne in Champaigne, and Englished by George North, gentlema[n].
by: Philibert, de Vienne, 16th cent
Published: (1575)

The closet of counsells : conteining the aduice of diuers wyse philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in poesies, preceptes, prouerbes, and parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe verse: by Edmond Eluiden Gent. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde.
by: Elviden, Edmund, poet
Published: (1569)

The nosegay of morall philosophie : lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.
by: Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?
Published: (1580)

[Some f]yne gloues deuised for Newyeres gyftes to teche yonge peop[le to] knowe good from euyll : wherby they maye learne the. x. commaundementes at theyr fyngers endes. x. other good lessons be written within the fyngers, the tree of vertues with her braunches in the right palme and the route of vyces in the lefte, with a declaration of the other pyctures folowinge in meter.
by: T. T., fl. 1560
Published: (1560)

Grandsire graybeard. Or Machiauell displayed
by: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
Published: (1635)

The first booke of Tullies Offices translated grammatically: and also according to the propriety of our English tongue; for the more speedy and certain attaining of the singular learning contained in the same, to further to a pure Latin stile, and to expresse the mind more easily, both in English and Latine. Done chiefly for the good of schooles; to be used according to the directions in the admonition to the reader, and more fully in Ludus lit. or Grammar-schoole
by: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published: (1631)

Newes from the north. Othervvise called The conference between Simon Certain and Pierce Plowman. Faithfully collected and gathered by T.F. student
by: T. F., student
Published: (1585)

The ruinous fal of prodigalitie : with the notable examples of the best aprooued aucthours which hath bin written of the same. Newly set foorth by Iohn Carr.
by: Carr, John, citezein of London
Published: (1573)

The boke of wysdome : folowynge the auctoryties of auncyent phylosophers, dyuydynge, and spekyng of vyces and vertues, wherby a man maye be praysed, or dyspraysed, with the maner to speke alwayes well and wysely to all folkes, of what estate so euer they be.
Published: (1532)

The dutifull advice of a loving sonne to his aged father
by: Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595
Published: (1632)

Essaies politicke, and morall. By D.T. Gent
by: D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660
Published: (1608)

Youths instruction. /
by: Martyn, William, 1562-1617
Published: (1613)