. 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 . e whatfoever, who has notan opportunity of fpending his days in theexercife of fome
. 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 . e whatfoever, who has notan opportunity of fpending his days in theexercife of fomething that is inHrudive or ufe-iul to himfelf or others?—« Go to the Antthou fluggard ! Confider her ways, and beA^^ife!—Nor is the ufeful employment ofTime confined to thofe only who muil get theij-bread by the fweat of their brow. Everygood and wife man, however greatly he maybe exaltsd by fortune above his fellow-crea.^^ ^ turcs. (• 1+8 )tures, will find that he may ufe his Time to theGlory of God, the fervice of his friends andcountry, or in fome way that may be benefi-cial to fociety. And he who attends to thefecial duties of mankind, and is willing toread the great Book of Nature, which Godhath fet open for his inftruaion needs neverchide the lagging hours, on the one hand,fmce he will know how to employ them well,nor complain of the fliorUiefs of human life,on the other hand, when he has an afTurancethat to the righteous man the end of Thnc is thebeginning of an happy Eternity. E M B L E M. EMBLEM XXX\m. Of Industry. WITH what hard toil, with what iin-ceafing cares,The Woodpecker his icanty meat prepares,Tho fmall the feaft that mufl reward his Sweet is tliat meal which honefl labour gains. Be frugal, be induflrious, if youre way to plenty through thefe maxims Idle to ill ftars afcribe their ftate,But Fools make fortune and deferve their Fate. H3 THE ( 150 ) THE Woodpecker is a fmall bird, whofelegs are Ihort, but its bill is of a confiderablelen
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