Identifier: moralemblemswith00cats (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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earthly side, at least, of iierfeclion,—it will fall short of thework of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds. In such cases of deceinion, let not man exclaim as Jacob does in his,— What isit t/ioii hast done unto me /—for tis his own iloings, and he has nothing to lay his faulton. but the heal and poetic indiscretion of his own passions.—.SrKRXK.s Sermons, vol. iv. p. ... ! EXPERIENCE TEACHES FOOLS. UA EXPERIENCIA ES MADRE DE 1_A SCIENCIA. rfoMETIMES I was the brood of Goldn-haird funne,W^ More pure, more chaft, than Veftas watchfull nunne. Purer than Eafterne gemmes, than Saphirs bright,Purer than Ophirs gold, than Rubies light,Purer than Paftols gravell often trydIn fire, and furnace feven times purifyd :But fince the fates to greafe did me combine.His filthy dregges are judged to be mine : For why conjundtion doth contagion make.And from th impure the pure infeftion take.The foule once plungd into the body darke,Forgets it was a chaft and divine fparke. Farlies Emblems.
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SXSEXPERIENCE IS THE BEST MASTER.-Ss© TON NON MOUVOIR, MOUVOIR .ME FAIT. Dum Trahimus. Trahimur

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