. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . C4 ( 4o). Emblem XILNo Fate above VIRTUE, OL D (a) Hermes taught, three thoufand Ycariago,That Starry Orbs ruld our dark World below ;(h) Aerial Forms in evry Sphere confines;This mourns in Satum, that in Vcjius fliines jOne rides a Sun-Beam, tother mounts a Star;Some footh to peaceful Arts, fome call to from hence, and (c) Pythagorean Dreams,Rapt to Ideal Worlds, liis Syftem frames:Each Planet holds fome (d) falln Angels Seat,Doomd there to pafs his (e) Teletary State : Abfbradcd (41 ) Abftrafled Na
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . C4 ( 4o). Emblem XILNo Fate above VIRTUE, OL D (a) Hermes taught, three thoufand Ycariago,That Starry Orbs ruld our dark World below ;(h) Aerial Forms in evry Sphere confines;This mourns in Satum, that in Vcjius fliines jOne rides a Sun-Beam, tother mounts a Star;Some footh to peaceful Arts, fome call to from hence, and (c) Pythagorean Dreams,Rapt to Ideal Worlds, liis Syftem frames:Each Planet holds fome (d) falln Angels Seat,Doomd there to pafs his (e) Teletary State : Abfbradcd (41 ) Abftrafled Nature witli luch Art refines. He almoft leaves Intelligence behind. The Soul affrighted at liis aery Hoft, Flags her dull (f) Wings, and midft Abflradion*s Arijlotk found, and in a RageDrove all Platonic Beings off the to Fate immortal Power alTignd,Scarce confcious of the one Almighty Nature then on Natures Laws hold a blind Necellity in Fate,We, wifer grown, from a Diviner Ray,Enjoy the Lumen of a brighter Day jThe Human Soul to nobler Joys extend,
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