. Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works . REJOICE IN THE UORD ALWAY; AND AGAIN I SAY REOOICET 32 I_A PEUR EST GRAND INVENTEUR. Inverte, et BOTH SIDKS SHOULD HK ft MASK, Iccn firft in front, by childrens eyes,\^ Strikes them with terror and with wild furprife But wouldft reftore to calm the urchin mind,Avert the face, and let them fee men no lefs, how oft doth it appear,The worft interpreter of things is l-ear !How oft th
. Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works . REJOICE IN THE UORD ALWAY; AND AGAIN I SAY REOOICET 32 I_A PEUR EST GRAND INVENTEUR. Inverte, et BOTH SIDKS SHOULD HK ft MASK, Iccn firft in front, by childrens eyes,\^ Strikes them with terror and with wild furprife But wouldft reftore to calm the urchin mind,Avert the face, and let them fee men no lefs, how oft doth it appear,The worft interpreter of things is l-ear !How oft the crowds of men and women grown,(j^iailing like children at fome form unknown — A GREAT FOOLISH FEAR DOUBLES DANGER. Or when fome found unufual ftrikes their ear,Fly, to meet ills far worfe than thofe they fear!And yet how frequent, would they but reftrainThe fudden terror of their feverd calmer wait t examine and to feeThe how, or end of what the thing may be;Puerile as that which filld the child with d find the fancied peril which they fled ;And fcannd with coolnefs, learn more what in front is terrible to fee, I t 0^ Seen from behind provokes hilarity ! Z 0 z < I ° h 0 Timiditas est corruptio judicii. O Q. 0 TpHE Imagination (says
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