. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display 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 the right honorable Lord Newbattle . »!:jy. EMBLEM Xn. Of the Use ^T^R U E to the Sun the Dial fdll abides,
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display 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 the right honorable Lord Newbattle . »!:jy. EMBLEM Xn. Of the Use ^T^R U E to the Sun the Dial fdll abides,■^ And points Times courfe minutely as it bids us hailen to be wile and rapid in their courfe the minut»6 flow,Seize on the winged hours delay,Nor trufl to-morrow while we live to day. Time well employd is a moft certain gain,Earnell: of pleafure, remedy for pain ;The chief of blcfiings on its courfe attends,Since on its ufe Eternity depends, BEHOLD ( 46 ) BEHOLD how true the Dial is to tiieSun, and how exa<5lly it marks the hourswhofe courfe might othenvife pafs unnoticedor unknown. This ufeful invention we owe to the mathe-maticians of ancient days, who thus furnifhedmen with the means of accurately diilinguifii-ing the different parts of the da}% and divid-ing them into equal portions, whereby la- -hour and reft, fciidy and aniufement vverebetter regulated, and the vvaile of time {< a momxCnt, without the trouble of tediou_calculations. The Romans (mafters of the wo
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