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• Conduct of life
• Ethics -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Benevolence -- Early works to 1800
• Charity -- Early works to 1800
• Etiquette -- Early works to 1800
• Folly -- Early works to 1800
• Friendship -- Early works to 1800
• Justice -- Early works to 1800
• Virtue -- Early works to 1800
• Children -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
• Christian women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction -- Early works to 1800
• Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
• Young men -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800
• Young women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800

• The Legacy of a Dying Mother to Her Mourning Children: Being the Experiences of Mrs. Susanna Bell, Who Died March 13, 1672 (London: J. Hancock Sr. and Jr., 1673), by Susanna Bell, contrib. by Thomas Brooks (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Letters From a Father to His Son, on Various Topics, Relative To Literature and the Conduct of Life, Written in the years 1792 and 1793 (Philadelphia: Printed by S. H. Smith, 1794), by John Aikin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Theatrum Vitae Humanae (in Latin; Metz: A. Fabri, 1596), by Jean Jacques Boissard, illust. by Theodor de Bry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Young Grandison: A Series of Letters From Young Persons to Their Friends, Translated From the Dutch of Madame de Cambon, With Alterations and Improvements (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1790), by Madame de Cambon, ed. by Mary Wollstonecraft, trans. by John Hall
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Government of the Tongue (second impression, 1674), by Richard Allestree (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Government of the Tongue (third impression; 1675), by Richard Allestree
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Honestie of This Age: Proving by Good Circumstance that the World was Never Honest Till Now (London: Reprinted for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1844), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
  • Volume I (introduction, and letters 1-65); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (letters 66-92); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (letters 93-124, with appendices and indexes); multiple formats at archive.org
• The Doctrine of the Mean, by Confucius, trans. by James Legge (HTML at nothingistic.org)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• On Benefits, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (Gutenberg text)
• Some Fruits of Solitude (includes More Fruits of Solitude), by William Penn
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Whistle: Extract From a Letter Written by Franklin to Madame Brillon November, 1779 (Boston: Brad Stephens and Co., c1921), by Benjamin Franklin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Rules and Orders for the Government of the House of an Earle (London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1821), by Richard Brathwaite
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• De Amicitia; Scipio's Dream, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Andrew P. Peabody (Gutenberg text)
• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• The Enchiridion, by Epictetus, trans. by Elizabeth Carter (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus, trans. by Hastings Crossley (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes, by Epictetus, trans. by Hastings Crossley (Gutenberg text)

• On Benefits, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (Gutenberg text)

• Charity (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Coulson edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Whitehead edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com

• The Gentlewomans Companion (1999 edited edition; based on the edition of 1673), ed. by Katherine E. Ellison, contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at Emory)
• The Gentlewoman's Companion, or, A Guide to the Female Sex (London: Printed by A. Maxwell for D. Newman, 1673), contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body: Expressing What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, 1631), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: 110 Don'ts (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1942), by George Washington, ed. by John Allen Murray, illust. by Georg T. Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation, by George Washington, ed. by Charles Moore, contrib. by Francis Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility, Traced to Their Sources and Restored (1890), by George Washington, ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway (Gutenberg text)
• The Rules of Civility (manuscript copy), by George Washington (page images at loc.gov)

• Colloquia Familiaria et Encomium Moriae (2 volumes, in Latin; Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1828), by Desiderius Erasmus (both volumes scanned together: multiple formats at Google)
• The Praise of Folie = Moriae Encomium (rare 1549 printing), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Thomas Chaloner (page images here at Penn)
• The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Betty Radice (HTML at mensch.net)
• The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by John Wilson
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text

• De Amicitia; Scipio's Dream, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Andrew P. Peabody (Gutenberg text)
• Laelius, or, An Essay on Friendship, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by William Melmoth (HTML at Fordham)
• Lysis, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Lysis, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg text)
• M. T. Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, Ex Editionibus Oliveti et Ernesti, Accedunt Notae Anglicae (third edition, with main text in Latin and commentary in English; Philadelphia: Perkins and Purves; Boston: B. Perkins, 1842), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Charles K. Dillaway
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though it Be of His Worst Enemies (London: J. Baker, 1715), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)
• Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
  • microfilm scan (omitting some back matter): multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1971 facsmile reproduction: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Characters of Virtues and Vices, by Joseph Hall (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Meno, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Meno, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees, by Francis Hutcheson (HTML at McMaster)

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