. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . unrepent-ant and polluted. He is treasuring up, what ?—gold; what else \wrath against the day of wrath. The love of money, an evildisease has taken hold upon him; the more he adds, the more hefeeds the disease 5 like persons with the dropsy, who drink and arestill dry. When Garrick, the actor, showed Dr. Johnson an estatehe had lately purchased, Johnson remarked: Ah! it is thesethings that make death dreadful. But the love of money makeslife miserable. The Roman citize
. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . unrepent-ant and polluted. He is treasuring up, what ?—gold; what else \wrath against the day of wrath. The love of money, an evildisease has taken hold upon him; the more he adds, the more hefeeds the disease 5 like persons with the dropsy, who drink and arestill dry. When Garrick, the actor, showed Dr. Johnson an estatehe had lately purchased, Johnson remarked: Ah! it is thesethings that make death dreadful. But the love of money makeslife miserable. The Roman citizen, Apicius, after spending some800,000 pounds, and finding he was worth only about 83,000,fearing want, ended his life by poison RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS. 35 But the worlding heapeth up riches, and knows not who willgather them. Cupidus, with great labour, accumulated a largeestate, and dying, left his wealth to his two sons, Stultus and had in a little time to be placed under guardians, whospent his money for their own pleasures. EfFusio squandered hispatrimony in riotous living, and died in a lunatic 36 RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS.
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