A Treatise of Direction
| Full Title | A Treatise of Direction, how to Travell Safely and Profitably into Forraigne Countries | ||||
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| Language | English | ||||
| Year | 1643 | ||||
| Text Type | Treatise | ||||
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| Prose / Verse | prose | ||||
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| Authorship Notes | Dedicated to Neale's brother William 'at Tours in France'. The ODNB aptly describes this as 'a pedantic little treatise, full of quotations from the classics, but devoid of a solitary hint from the writer's own experience'. It is essentially a short literary treatise which uses the topic of travel to support a dense canopy of overwrought classical allusions and quotations. Its key theme is to show that 'The end ... of discreet Travaile, is Wisdome'. | ||||
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