Sethos: History or Life Taken from the Private Monuments of Ancient Egypt

his honor Original: "son honneur", completing the phrase from the previous page. in sacrificing his interests to them, and which make a duty for him out of the happiness he procures for them.

It is not only by natural disposition or by habit that Sethos is virtuous. The motives for his conduct are drawn from constant and enlightened principles which he displays on various occasions; and he makes decisions for himself which, while always tending toward the most perfect and even the heroic, are nonetheless more commendable for their soundness than for their severity. From this, one must judge that the Author, who lived in the second century The book Sethos (1731) was a "pseudo-translation"—the real author, Abbé Jean Terrasson, claimed he was merely translating an ancient Greek manuscript from the 2nd century to give the story more authority., had some knowledge of a morality far superior to that of Paganism Paganism: In this context, the term refers to the ancient polytheistic religions of Greece, Rome, and Egypt, which 18th-century writers often viewed as morally "incomplete" compared to later philosophical or religious systems.. It is easy to perceive that it is from there that he borrowed those exact definitions and distinctions of virtues and vices which he sometimes places in the mouth of his Hero and some of his other characters.

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