Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle (1772)
Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Ovenden, fl. 1772, Riley, George · London : Printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, May Fair · leaf 138
by their deaths, when if theyha^-e any riches they may perhaps leave themto others who will make a better ufe of thofegifts than tliey have dons. There- ( I20 ) Therefore, if you would have men wlfli youlife and profperity, live in fuch a manner asto be fendceablc to fociety; for depend on itif you… … E IVI B L E M xxxr. Of Precipitation-. w HAT means that rafli and heedlefschariotf^er, Down the fheep rock to urge his mad career ?Sees he not round him various danrers ^row.High cliffs above and yawning deeps below ?Yet down the drear)-, dreadful path he hies,i\Iadly meets ruin, and defpairing…
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