The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

Quoi! vous voulez ressusciter un Mort contre l’ordre de la Nature? croyez moi, defaites vous d’une foiblesse dont les seules Femmes sont capables & jouïssez des avantages de la...

A Secretary of State in _France_, passing the _Pont-neuf_, or New Bridge at _Paris_, between Nine and Ten a Clock in a Winter-night, with his Lacquey carrying a Flambeau before...

_Clitander_ having seen by chance _Celimene_, stood both surprised and charm’d with her Beauty. However because she had but a very mean Fortune, and that he was Master of a vast...

It was the saying of _Alphonsus_, Sirnamed the Wise, King of _Aragon_, that amongst so many things as are by Men possest, or eagerly pursu’d in the Course of their Lives, all th...

_Perillus_ having asked of _Alexander_ the Great, who had a Friendship for him, some Money to marry one of his Daughters, _Alexander_ order’d him fifty Talents. _Perillus_ told...

_Lewis_ the Eleventh, afterwards King of _France_, in fear of his Father _Charles_ the Seventh, retired into _Burgundy_, where he contracted a Familiarity with one _Conon_ a Pea...

Le Chevalier _Thomas More_, fameux Chancelier d’_Angleterre_, ètant en Prison par l’ordre de _Henry_ VIII laissa croitre ses cheveux & sa barbe; & comme un Barbier, se presenta...

The Duke of _Milan_ being Besieg’d, and hard put to it in a Castle by the _Florentines_, could find no manner of Meat that pleas’d his Palate when he was at Table, and as he oft...

Une Dame Galante ayant accordé un Rendezvous à un homme qui lui avoit temoigné de la Passion, Elle le receut seule dans sa Chambre, & fort parée. l’Amant se mis à genoux auprés...

In the Tryal of a Cause, whereof _Aristides_ was Judge, one of the Parties related several Abuses which the same _Aristides_ had received from his adverse Party: _Let that pass_...

Sentences, witty Repartees and Jests, have ever been esteem’d by all civilized Nations: The ancient _Greeks_ and _Romans_ have shewn what account they made of them, by their car...

_Cineas_ ètoit en grande estime auprès de _Phyrrus_ Roy d’_Epire_ qui se servoit de lui dans toutes ses Affaires importantes, & avoüoit qu’il avoit gagné plus de Villes par les...

L’Empereur _Tibere_ changeoit rarement les Officiers, les Gouverneurs, & les Magistrats de son Empire, & quand on lui en demandoit la raison, il repondit: _quand les Mouches son...

King _Pyrrhus_ taking notice that his Son us’d his Subjects with too much Pride and Severity, rebuk’d him in these Words; _I perceive well enough, my Son, by your haughty way of...

_Alexandre_ le Grand ayant remporté la Victoire sur l’Armée de _Darius_ Roy de _Perse_, celui-ci lui demanda la Paix, & lui offrit la moitié de l’_Asie_, avec dix mille Talents....