Proverbs in verse, or, Moral instruction conveyed in pictures for use of schools, on the plan of Hogarth moralized . 74 Take away my good name, take away my Good name to iSIan, says our immortal bardOf Avons (with Character cnsnard,)A Jewel, of inestimable price ;He w ho purloins it, is a child of vice;Bobs me of that, which cannot him enrich;And makes me poor, een to the greatest pitchOf Penury ; scarce ever to be lo a state of wretchedness, forlorn. An old man here by villains is , (by hope of the reward indued,)To justice draggd, of felony accusd. 1 7a Good c

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Proverbs in verse, or, Moral instruction conveyed in pictures for use of schools, on the plan of Hogarth moralized . 74 Take away my good name, take away my Good name to iSIan, says our immortal bardOf Avons (with Character cnsnard,)A Jewel, of inestimable price ;He w ho purloins it, is a child of vice;Bobs me of that, which cannot him enrich;And makes me poor, een to the greatest pitchOf Penury ; scarce ever to be lo a state of wretchedness, forlorn. An old man here by villains is , (by hope of the reward indued,)To justice draggd, of felony accusd. 1 7a Good character in life to mans so dear,That even villains covet it, and fearIts loss: its sacred semblance they assume ;To court its honours, often will presume ;Labour to be respectable in life,And carry on the farce with ardent its high importance in the world,Whether in pride or dissipation interest or ambition or not by Justice great the sanction of a virtuous gain it in reality,—not name:Tis easy gaind, but what is scarce belie\ d,Once lost, tis difficult to be retrievJ.

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