This collection of essays and tracts by Francis Osborne, originally published in 1720, offers a fascinating insight into the politics, culture, and intellectual life of seventeenth-century England. Covering topics ranging from advice to a son to political reflections on the government of the Turks, this book is an important resource for historians and scholars of early modern literature and culture.

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