Thom. But who is so much obliged as I am?
Fan. Do you not all deserve everything from me?
John. Well, who could have thought when I went to help up the wagon, that it would have brought so much good luck to us?
Bet. A good deed is never lost they say.
Fan. It shall be the business of my life to prove that this has not been lost.
ON EMBLEMS.
“Pray, papa,” said Cecilia, “what is an emblem? I have met with the word in my lesson to-day, and I do not quite understand it.”
“An emblem, my dear,” replied he, “is a visible image of an invisible thing.”
Cecilia. A visible image of—I can hardly comprehend—
Pa. Well, I will explain it more at length. There are certain notions that we form in our minds without the help of our eyes or any of our senses. Thus, Virtue, Vice, Honour, Disgrace, Time, Death, and the like, are not sensible objects, but ideas of the understanding.