Identifier: moralemblemswith01cats (find matches)
Title: Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farley, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662 Leighton, John, 1822-1912 Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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A SHIP AGROUND, IS A BEACON AT SEA. Hr^ORT! hard a-port! ftarboard your helm! lookout!\ See what our neighbour in the Schuyts about!Upon a fand-fpit there as fure as day,Hes hard and faft; right in the courfe we lay !Give her a good wide berth, my mate, that weClear well the fand-tail where thofe breakers be. wist MEN LEARN BY OTHERS HARM. 161 CO LUJQ. UJ Q IT IS EASIEST LEARNING AT ANOTHERS COST. Theyll never pole her off—to ftrive is vain; With ebbing-tide as now, there fhell remain : And mould the wind chop round and blow to more, Shell break her rudder, or get damage more. Reader! look well to this, and let it be A caution in Lifes voyage unto thee. The Skipper who defcries a ihip aground, No beacon needs to guide, nor lead to found: And truly prudent is that man alone, Who by anothers fault can mend his own. Many who have themfelves but little fkill To mape their courfe where peril may accrue, X Avert full oft the greater mare of ill Who take example from what others do.For You

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