. 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 . ! 00 0 RUN SMOOTH. CONTENT IS HAPPINESS. SuiC qtiemqiie Forttaue EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT. he Fifh that in the Weel are taken,When they find no IfTue more,Feel the ftronger wifh awaken To be where they were before :But the Fifh that fee them in it. Think it far more pleafant there;And they ftrive their heft to win round it evrywhere. THOU SHALT NOT COVET. COVETOUSNESS BRINGS NOTHINa H
. 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 . ! 00 0 RUN SMOOTH. CONTENT IS HAPPINESS. SuiC qtiemqiie Forttaue EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT. he Fifh that in the Weel are taken,When they find no IfTue more,Feel the ftronger wifh awaken To be where they were before :But the Fifh that fee them in it. Think it far more pleafant there;And they ftrive their heft to win round it evrywhere. THOU SHALT NOT COVET. COVETOUSNESS BRINGS NOTHINa HOME. Thus it is that men, hke Fiflies, Neer contented with their lot. Ever reftlefs in their wifhes. Craving more than what theyve got; — In their greed of wealth and ftation. Coveting yet more and more. Oft in change of fituation. > Find it worfe than twas before. Ul Z0 0 z DI pISCIS cum modo ingrediendi nassam videat, egrediendi non videat, et nihilominusingrediatur, piscatoribus fit prasda : non est ergo suscipiendum negotium, nisi h(D UJ I U] prills perspecta ratione qua te possis inde rursus explicare : nee enim labyrinthi < < ingrediendi sunt sine filo, quo securus possis redire. 0 Nemo est, quin ubivis, qu.\m ibi, iibi est, esse maUt : na
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