. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . the wicked. Vice to avoid is virtues earliefl: rule,Wi^oms firft precept ** Not to
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . the wicked. Vice to avoid is virtues earliefl: rule,Wi^oms firft precept ** Not to be a fool.* To become familiar with the name ofvice is the firft introduclicn to the prafticeof it, and to fee ill adtions unmoved is theiirlt ftep towards commiting them. It is thus that people have been led bydegrees into the perpretation of crimes atone time, which at another they would ha\e{huddered but to think en ; and then havelooked back with furprize upon their alteredilate, and that loft innocence which they ne-ver could poflefs again. Ac- ( 20 ) AccuHom yourfelf therefore to Hirink like^ic plant in the emblem whenever vice ap-proaches you. Prevent evil in its firll ftage,and you will fave yourfelf many periods cfunhappinefs. Affume a habit of virtue, andit will grow every day eafier to you, fo mayyou be enabled to refifc temptation ; for beaffured ycu can .never boafl: the, k<:^ degree®f freedom from any fiu till you fnaddcr atthe leafl fhadow of an inciiement to commit it» EMBLEM I 21 ).
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