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Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying 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 a young nobleman (1793)

Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788 · London : Printed by J. Chapman for E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard · leaf 115

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t that any one de« ferved to fucceeded him, he left his empire to be divided and torn with inteftine broils, which, in a courfe of years, occafioned its becoming) a prey to the Romans, who led the laft King of Macedonia in triumph through the flreets of Rome, and at length llarvedhim to death in a… … EMBLEM XXIX. Of the Regard of Vice. T O, here the nymph, by her own fathers doom,^ Condemnd alive to perifh in her tomb,Becaufe fhe yrelded to a flattVing tale,And over her Virtue let her love prevail;Her groans no pity from a parent claim.She finks, at once bereft of life and fame. MORAL. Thofe…

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