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Title: 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
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788
Subjects: Conduct of life --Juvenile poetry. Conduct of life --Juvenile literature. Emblem books, English --Juvenile literature.
Publisher: London : Printed by J. Chapman for E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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found except in the Paths of Virtue^if you deviate from Her ways, you muftnever expert to find the Road to Happi-nefs:—you will become a Wanderer, andthe hope of your Piigiimagc will be loft. For thefe three are as inieparable as, fire,light, and heat; where the one i?, thereyou will find the others ; and the rewardIhall be fuch as will far tranfcend the painsyou may be at in acquiiing fuch an inefti-raabie Treafure. In Ulfl- ( ^86 ) In the mean time, envy not the acqttions of others; for that is bafe and feifiih*;neither fay within yourfelf, Such an one ishappy ^ nxihilfl I am expo fed to adverjify. For you know not the fecrets of menshearts; and it may be, that the perfonwhom you efteem happy^ is a prey to corrod-ing grief-i and pines in fecret anxiety. Atleaft, know this, That the ftatc of no.human being can be determined, till Deathcloff s the fcene ;—and the lall end of theGoodo^Xy can be Happy, Emulate theirvirtues^ and, doubtlcfs, you fiiall fliarc intheir felicfiy* EMBLEM
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EMBLEM LXIII. Of the U/e of Time, ^RUE to the Sun the Dial ftil! abides, And points Times coufe minutely as it glides;Ths bids us haflen to be wife, and fhowHow rapid in their courfe the minutes uow;Seize on the winded hours without delay,Njr trufl to-morrow v/hile you Jive to-day. MORAL. Time well em^loyd is a moft- certain giif^jEaincil: of pleafure, remedy for pain;The chief of biefljnjrs on its courfe attends,Sicce on its uFe Eternity depends. BEHOLD ( i8S ) BEHOLD how true the Dial is to theSun, and how exa/lly it marks the hours,whofe courfe might otherwife pafs unno-ticed or unknown. This ufeful invention we owe to the ma-thematicians, of ancient days, who thus fur-niflied men with the means of accuratelydiftinguifhing the difierent parts of the day,and dividing them into equal portions,whereby labour and reft, ft.udy and amufe-ment, were better regulated, and the wafteof time feen in a moment, without the troubleof tedious calculations. The Romans (mafters of the world) wereat

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