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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 142

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xclaiming againft the fhortnefsof life, and yet are not afliamed, with thefame breadth, to complain, that their Timehangs heavy on their hands, and that theyknow not how to employ it ? But what an idle complaint is this, whenwe conlider, that there cannot be any pcr-fon, in whatfoever flation of… … EMBLEM XXXVIII. Oflnduftry. tTt tITH what hard toil, with what unceafing care^^^ The Woodpecker his fcanty meat prepares:Tho fmall the feaft that mufl reward his pains,Sweet is that raeal which heneft Labour gains. MORAL. Rt frugal, be ir.li/flriouif if youre wife, The road to plenty through thefe…

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