Identifier: iconologiaormora00ripa (find matches)
Title: Iconologia, or, Moral emblems
Year: 1709 (1700s)
Authors: Ripa, Cesare, fl. 1600 Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717 Fuller, Isaac, 1606-1672, ill
Subjects: Emblems Emblem books --Great Britain --18th century.
Publisher: London : Printed by Benj. Motte
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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prefles her Duggs with both Hands, from which flows abundance ofMilk, which fcveral Animals drink up; on her left SidQ is an Altar witbFire kindled upon it. The (queezing. her Breads declares Si//;?//towards Subjedls; thesky-colour,d^. frtews that it ought to be exercisd without any ircrldly intcrcfl;the Alter, that it ought to be fhewn upon the account of Religion^ thereinim i tatin g God himfalf. Fig 40. Bcnificio: SENIFICENCE. A young Man with a chearful Countenance, almoft naked, only hehas a (larry Mantb to cover his Secrets ; he lifts up his right Arm, andholds in the Palm of his Hand the three Graces; on his Wnft arc a pairof Wings, he holds in that Hand a Chain of Gold, declaring to make a.Pre fen c of it Young, becaufc the Remembrance of Bencffrs fliould never wax old.Handibm, bccauRi Bcnificcncc pleafes every body. Naked, bccaufe iclliould be void oi Intcrcfl and Vain-glory. His Arm open denotes histieadi/iefi.io^gratify; the Gold Chain, that Bcnificence f;!-.f and oUix^^s,
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Fig 41. Biigia: C 0 Z E K m G. A homely young Woman, wearing a changeable colourd Garment,•with (cvcral fores ot Masks and Tongues, with a wooden Leg, holding aWify of Straw hghtcd in one Hand, She is young but ugly, bccaufe it is z fcrvile Vice, not admitted intoingenuous Converfation. Her Habit denotes her Art of making onebelieve what is mt tru:. The Masks and Tongues demonHrate theIncorjflancy of a Chdit; the Wifp, that as it is foon kindled, Tiwd foon out,fo it is Z^^;? difcoverd ; the wooden Leg, .that flic cannot come home toher Bufmefs, but makes (bme Umc Excufe. F 1 G. 41. Bonra : GOOD NATURE,This Nymph wears a Robe of Cloth of Gold, a Garland of Rue,iier Eyes fixd on Heaven, has a Pelican in her Arms, and by her Side agreen Tree blofloming by a River. The Cloth of Gold denotes her ExcellefJcy; the Garland of Rue herbeing an Antidote againll /// Defigns, as that Herb is againft Inchantmenisand l^enom. The Pelican, Charity; for it nouriflies its Young with its ovrnSiood. The

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