Proverbs in verse, or, Moral instruction conveyed in pictures for use of schools, on the plan of Hogarth moralized . 106 Time and Tide vmitfor no man. I. Of all worldly kuowledge thought truly sublime,The greatest is that of ourselves and of first has before, in the title, been hinted,Yet further deserves in the mind to be of knowing ones-self, is the best of the two,And certainly merits our unceasing view\It teaches religion, as far as it duty to God, and our duty to man;Without it, we little are better than brutes,Their knowledge is not more than nature deputes.


Proverbs in verse, or, Moral instruction conveyed in pictures for use of schools, on the plan of Hogarth moralized . 106 Time and Tide vmitfor no man. I. Of all worldly kuowledge thought truly sublime,The greatest is that of ourselves and of first has before, in the title, been hinted,Yet further deserves in the mind to be of knowing ones-self, is the best of the two,And certainly merits our unceasing view\It teaches religion, as far as it duty to God, and our duty to man;Without it, we little are better than brutes,Their knowledge is not more than nature Passions would soon get Ike better of reason,Rebel against conscience, in case, as of tieasoiL 107 Without knowledge pf Time, wn lose half our days,So swiftly he flies, we discern not his Mays.;His flight ij! more rapid, by far than the wind ;We thiak to oertake him ; he leaves us behind. In painting him, poets have studied it day of his birtli, no historian can tell;Hes drawn as bald-pated, sare one lock before; Take Time by the fore-locks a proverb of holds out an hour-glass, to s!h)W how time armd with a scythe, m


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