. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . where the Heirefs marrying with other Princes,the Family may become extinft, and one State be con-founded with the other. (5) Minan ¿¡¡crimine fum¡pr¡nc¡itm$tam¡uttri. Tac. EMBLEM xyo Irtáufiry the Support^ and Vol. TC EMBLEM tXXL. T Y T H A T does not Labour overcome ? It fubdues¡ yV Iron^ foftens Brafs, draws out Gold into thefined Wire, and cuts the hardeft foft Rope does, by continual Motion, wear the MarbleEdge of the Well. By this Confideration, St. Ifidore^when he applyd himfelf to Study, overcame the Dulnefs
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . where the Heirefs marrying with other Princes,the Family may become extinft, and one State be con-founded with the other. (5) Minan ¿¡¡crimine fum¡pr¡nc¡itm$tam¡uttri. Tac. EMBLEM xyo Irtáufiry the Support^ and Vol. TC EMBLEM tXXL. T Y T H A T does not Labour overcome ? It fubdues¡ yV Iron^ foftens Brafs, draws out Gold into thefined Wire, and cuts the hardeft foft Rope does, by continual Motion, wear the MarbleEdge of the Well. By this Confideration, St. Ifidore^when he applyd himfelf to Study, overcame the Dulnefsof his Genius. What Fort was ever fo ftrong, as thatAiliduity could not conquer it ? The continued Forceof that Engine, which the Ancients calld a Ramy wouldmake a Breach in the thicked and drongeft Walls. Andwe fee now a-days, that Caítos, though defended byArtillery Walls, Ramparts and Ditches, are at laftforced to yiek} to the Spade and Mattock. No Difficultyretards or checks a Condant Spirit. The Temple ofGlory is not fituated in a delightful Valley, nor in a delicious Vol. II. Idlenefs the Bane, of the State. 171 delicious Plain, but upon a nigged Mountains Top, notto be arrivd at, but by rough, uncouth Paths, over-runwith Thorns and Brambles. The Temples of Minerva^Mars, and Hercule
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