Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations (1862)
Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660, Farlie, Robert, Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Pigot, Richard · London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 250
TRUST NOT A GREAT WEIGHT TO A SLENDER THREAD. EVERY ONE FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US Al_l_. Ogni Gallo ruspa a se. … EVERY COCK SCRATCHES TOWARDS HIMSELF. |pf ENTLE Reader, would you fee—U Would you fomewhat wifh to knowLife, depided truthfully,And how things in this World go ?Simple though this Emblem be, In thefe bufy Fowls youll find,Symbolifed moft faithfully, Type moft true of Human Kind. &<&,…
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