Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity (1848)

Holmes, William, Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 · New Haven, [Conn.] : John W. Barber ; New York : M. W. Dodd ; Boston : Crocker & Brewster · leaf 140

An illustration from Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity, 1848, leaf 140 — n times, the Almighty himself has prepared a dia-dem of glory for the self-conquered, bearing in lettersof heavenly light this inscription: He that rulethhis own spirit, is better than he that taketh a city.^ Madness, by nature reigns within, The passions biuii and rage ;Till Gods own Son, with… … Wherrfore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your la-brr for that which satisfieth not 1 Isa. Iv. 2. VAIN PURSUITS. The truant urchin has forsook the school,To learn betimes how best to play the fool;Oer hedge and brake, beneath a burning sun,With breathless haste, he perseveres to…

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