animal. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fro-ward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs viii. 13. 246 FLORAL EMBLKMS. PRETENSION. Ly thrum .—Lythrum. LEstrange says, Men indulge those opi-nions and practices that favour their preten- sions. ** But if to unjust things thou dost pretend.Ere they… … FLORAL EMBLEMS. 247 This beautiful species of the lily tribe variesnot more in its colours than pride does in itsqualities. Man without ** The honest pride of conscious virtue, is a mere animal, a sloth. Man, with prideof the insolent kind is lower than the brute.Man, who permits his self-esteem to…
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