An account of Paris at the close of the seventeenth century : relating to the buildings of that city, its libraries, gardens, natural and artifical curiosities, the manners and customs of the people, their arts, manufactures, &c / by Martin Lister.

  • Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.
Date:
[1823]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of Paris at the close of the seventeenth century : relating to the buildings of that city, its libraries, gardens, natural and artifical curiosities, the manners and customs of the people, their arts, manufactures, &c / by Martin Lister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE AUTHOR^ DEDICATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY mmi* Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham, Lord High Chancellor, and one of the Lords Justices of England. My Lord, Wisdom is the foundation of justice, and equity, and it seems not to be perfect un- less it also comprehends philosophy and natural learning, and whatever is of great taste in the arts. It is certain, my Lord, for the honour of your high station, that the greatest philosophers of the age, were of your predecessors; nor is your Lordship in any respect behind them, so that it would seem as though nothing inspired people with more equity than a true value for useful learning and arts. It is this reflection which has given me the courage to offer to your Lordship this short account of the magnificent.