Miscellaneous essays, [electronic resource] : viz. I. Of company and conversation. II. Of Solitariness and Retirement. III. Of Nobility. IV. Of Contentment. V. Of Women. VI. Of the Knowledge of God, and against Atheism. Vii. Of Religion. Viii. Of Kings, Princes, and the Education of a Prince. IX. Of Greatness of Mind. X. Of the Education of Children. XI. Of Law. XII. Of Man. XIII. Of old age. With The Life and Conversion of St. Mary Magdalen, and some Reflections upon the Conversion of the good Thief; also, the Life and Conversion of St. Paul. By Sir Richard Bulstrode, Kt. Envoy at the Court of Brussels, from King Charles II. and King James II. Publish'd, with a preface, by his son Whitlocke Bulstrode, Esq; .