...That e\ery thing contains within itself Tiie seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankeri.ig rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets...evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow, anil for ever. Saps and consumes the heart in which it lurks. In the fragment next ensuing an old man...

...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption : The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets...old man is reproved for the vice of covetousness; their is a delicacy in the manner of it, that well becomes both the age and condition of the speaker,...

...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets out your garment, and the worm pjats its slow way into the solid oak; But .Envy, of all evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow,...

...but what is that to the ceaseless pride, envy, malice, and conceit of a little mind 1 THE cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...ever, Saps, and consumes the heart in which it lurks. AMBITION is the dropsy of the soul, Whose thirst we must not yield to, but controul. How dreadfully...

...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption : The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets out your garment, and the worm 5 Eats its slow way into the solid oak ; But Envy, of all evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow,...

...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. ADVICE TO THE COVETOUS. WEAK is the vanity, that boasts of riches, For they are fleeting things...

...For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. CUMBERLAND'S Menander. 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardon'd all, except...

...For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. CUMBERLAND'S Menander. 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardon'd all, except...

...ENVY. EVERY thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; * The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow, and forever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. Written for the Mothers Assistant. THE FATE...

...Kaleigh. For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. Cumberland, Envy's a sharper spur than pay, And, unprovok'd, 'twill court the fray. ****** Fools...