Identifier: moralemblemswith00catsj (find matches)
Title: Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farley, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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but thereby be silent.—Grachns Maxims. SlL y a beaucoup dart a parler, il ny en a pas nioins a se taire. La Rochefoucauld. Silence is the Sanctuary of Prudence. point of being conquered and convinced. * It was s.iid of PopE Alkxander VI. and of his Son tlienever did what he said, and the son never said wliat he did. ^■^S^-S^ SAY NOT ALL THOU KNOWEST. 0 h< 00 < z i J g Iml K I< 0 z 0 0 Si z HE careful! Matrone in her cell below,Let fall a groat, yet where fhe did not know :Forthwith fhe tinnes a Light, then with her hroomeShe neatly fweepes the corners of the roome:Thus from the duft and darkenefTe when fhe finds it,More than the Phrygian Midas wealth fhe mindes it.Our foule a divine fparke fince that it fellInto Cimmerian darkenefTe of this cell,The foules true knowledge doth appeare no moreWhich goeth beyond Pygmalions richefl flore.Then muft we light Cleanthes Lamp and findBy ftudy, the lofl: treafure of our mind. Far lies Emblems.
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BELIEVE NOT ALL THOU HEAREST. UlTTLE CHIPS KINDLE A LARQE FIRE. Culex fodit oculum Leonis.

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