A Choice of EmblemesGeorg Olms Verlag, 1971 - 440 pages |
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... CHESHIRE , GEFFREY WHITNEY'S NATIVE COUNTY ; AND TO THE SUBSCRIBERS GENERALLY : THIS REPRINT OF " THE CHOICE OF EMBLEMES " IS DEDICATED , IN GRATEFUL TESTIMONY OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT WHICH ENABLED THE EDITOR TO REPRODUCE A FAC - SIMILE ...
... CHESHIRE , GEFFREY WHITNEY'S NATIVE COUNTY ; AND TO THE SUBSCRIBERS GENERALLY : THIS REPRINT OF " THE CHOICE OF EMBLEMES " IS DEDICATED , IN GRATEFUL TESTIMONY OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT WHICH ENABLED THE EDITOR TO REPRODUCE A FAC - SIMILE ...
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... Cheshire Archæological Society . I was , I assure you , pleased to find that I have been so ably and thoroughly anticipated , and can now only regret that I had not known of your undertaking in October last , before leaving home , as it ...
... Cheshire Archæological Society . I was , I assure you , pleased to find that I have been so ably and thoroughly anticipated , and can now only regret that I had not known of your undertaking in October last , before leaving home , as it ...
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... Cheshire , chief of men ; " and his principal work , A Choice of Emblemes , though not the very earliest in our literature , was the first of its kind to present an adequate example of the emblem - books that had issued from the presses ...
... Cheshire , chief of men ; " and his principal work , A Choice of Emblemes , though not the very earliest in our literature , was the first of its kind to present an adequate example of the emblem - books that had issued from the presses ...
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... in 1586 at Leyden In the House of Christopher Plantyn , ' by his son - in - law Raphelengius ; and this is probably the only English book which See Appendix , chap . i . History of Cheshire Introductory Dissertation . xxxiii.
... in 1586 at Leyden In the House of Christopher Plantyn , ' by his son - in - law Raphelengius ; and this is probably the only English book which See Appendix , chap . i . History of Cheshire Introductory Dissertation . xxxiii.
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Geffrey Whitney Henry Green. See Appendix , chap . i . History of Cheshire , vol . iii . p . 230 . Proceedings of Liverpool Phil . p . 33 . owes its existence to the matrices and puncheons of the immortal Plantyn . * I wish it were ...
Geffrey Whitney Henry Green. See Appendix , chap . i . History of Cheshire , vol . iii . p . 230 . Proceedings of Liverpool Phil . p . 33 . owes its existence to the matrices and puncheons of the immortal Plantyn . * I wish it were ...
Contents
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INDEX to the Mottoes with Translations and some Pro | lxxv |
POSTSCRIPT to the Introductory Dissertation lxxxilxxxviii | lxxxi |
Titlepage Frontispiece Dedication c 120 | c |
ESSAYS LITERARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | 231 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL | |
Addenda 401412 | |
EMBLEMA FINALE 434 | |
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Page xxii - A ROT AMONGST THE BISHOPS ; or a Terrible Tempest in the Sea, of Canterbury, set forth in lively emblems, to please the judicious Reader.
Page lxxiii - Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th
Page 340 - VIII., was so noted for his meek spirit, deep learning, prudence and piety, that the then Parliament and Convocation both, chose, enjoined, and trusted him to be the man to make a Catechism for public use, such a one as should stand as a rule for faith and manners to their posterity. And the good old man, though he was very learned, yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many nor by hard questions, like an honest Angler, made that good, plain, unperplexed Catechism which is printed with our...
Page 306 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate...
Page 306 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting' endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page lv - WHITNEY (Geffrey). — A Choice of Emblemes, and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized, And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney.