. The doctrine of morality : or, A view of human life, according to the stoick philosophy : exemplify'd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret, engraver to the Late French King, with an explanation of each plate . Cet Avare aux lèvres déteintes, The Mifer here, with pale and withered Pace, Met fon Bon-heur en fon Argent ; Does in his Money all his Comfort place ,- Cependant le Chagrinluy donne mill atteintes; Whilft Care to keep it like a Vultur tears Et comme un fier Vautour fes Entrailles rongeant : His Soul within, and endlefs Doubts and Fears II meurt
. The doctrine of morality : or, A view of human life, according to the stoick philosophy : exemplify'd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret, engraver to the Late French King, with an explanation of each plate . Cet Avare aux lèvres déteintes, The Mifer here, with pale and withered Pace, Met fon Bon-heur en fon Argent ; Does in his Money all his Comfort place ,- Cependant le Chagrinluy donne mill atteintes; Whilft Care to keep it like a Vultur tears Et comme un fier Vautour fes Entrailles rongeant : His Soul within, and endlefs Doubts and Fears II meurt cent fois le jour, de Soupçons & de Craintes. Deftroy his Peace, and wafte his joylefs Yeats. io6 The Do&rine of MORALITY; or> The Explanation of the Fifty-Third Picture. LAvare craint tout, & ne craint rien. EST un grand Mal-heur que dejîreéternellement dans la Crainte & danslInquiétude. Mais -pour comble deMal-heur, & pour le dernier Châti-ment des Crimes de lHomme avare,il arrive quelque fois quil devientinfenfible à ce quil fouffre ; & que. The Covetous fear all things, yet fceminfenfible of all things. T is a great Misfortune to be per-*petually in fear and dread ; butthe laft and greateft Punifhmentthat Heaven can chaftife a Manwithal, is to let him become ftu-pid and infenfible of all he fuffers,fo as to go on in Sin, without a-
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