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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 40

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o friendfhip can exiftthat is not founded on a n)irtuous bafis ; itis only a connexion of interell, which theiirfl puff of adverfe fortune will blow away,and fcatter to the winds of Heaven.—Bur,-when you have really got a true friend, < Grapple him to your foul with hooks of fleel IAbide by him… … EMBLEM V. Of Purity • SO nicely formed by Natures bidden laws,Lo! from the touch the confcioxis Plant withdraws:Emblem of Purity ; which flill retiresFrom the rude glowing of unhallowM fires;Yet ftill more weak the frequent touch it trieSjDroops in approaching, and by prefllire dies. MORAL. Shun…

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