The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Three hundred maxims examine conduct, reputation, judgment and relationships. This is the same historical Jacobs translation quoted by the archive. Read the heading and its explanation together; these observations reflect seventeenth-century social assumptions.
Who it suits
Readers interested in practical judgment and the historical relationship between prudence, ambition and social life.
Reading experience
Moderate; compact arguments, older English and historical assumptions invite careful reading. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1892; Joseph Jacobs translation (year supplied in brackets by the digitized title page)
- Language
- English
- Translator
- Joseph Jacobs
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
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Catalogue metadata checked 2026-10-04. Descriptions and reading guidance are original Edsverb editorial text. A related-reading link does not establish that an archive saying occurs in this edition.