together with HIEROGLYPHICS Life of Man FRANCIS QUARLES. Hac laus, hic apex Sapientia est, ea viventem Bristol. Printed by Joseph Lansdown & John Mills. - Jehnsen fe 1808. Bristol THE EDITOR's PREFACE. MR. FRANCIS QUARLES' Emblems first printed about the Year 1630, have been long esteemed, and much admired by the sober, virtuous and pious in every Denomination. There is not a single circumstance in human Life to which some Part of them does not allude; the Explanations of the Figures are in easy agreeable Verse; to each of them is added a striking Quotation from one of the Fathers of the Church, and the Whole is briefly summed up in a general Inference. THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART is also an excellent Performance; for it unfolds all the Springs of Action in the human Mind, and points out what are the Principles upon which the Generality of Mankind act; a Subject that can never be too much attended to. This excellent Work has been long out of Print, which occasioned its being sold at an exorbitant Price; to the great loss of many worthy Persons who would have been glad to purchase it. With respect to the present Edition, it exceeds all that ever went before; the Cuts are engraved at a vast expence, all the Latin Mottos are translated, so that it will be found one of the most agreeable Works that can be offered to the Public; especially to the rising Generation. Here they will meet with no distracting Controversy; no doubts concerning Religion; but Entertainment and Improvement go hand in hand together. Ir is hoped that this Edition will meet with that reception which the merit and utility of such an original a work |