...authority, but with wisdom and truth, showing the vain lessons of this worldly wisdom of every age, ' Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered.' But hear the awful rebuke, ' Such things they did imagine and were deceived: for their own wickedness...

...imposing, and soft and sweet ; and then here the poet seems to say — let us seize on our youth, I OB And let no flower of the spring pass by us ; Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered. Boo* of Wisdom. Now Neptune calms the roaring wave ; The shore now gentle ripplings lave...

...turtle is heard in our land, the time of the singing of birds and of the springing of flowers is come. Let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they are withered." Our blessed Saviour himself did not disdain to use them as emblematic of the entire...

...statement by the author of the book of Wisdom. " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ornaments, " And let no flower of the spring pass by us ; " Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered." Wisdom, ii. 7, 8. IT Which are on the head. Which flowers, or chaplets are on the eminence...

...Come on, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; let us fill ourselves with costly wines ; and let no flower of the spring pass by us, let us crown ourselves with rose-buds ere they be withered ; let none of us go without a part of our voluptuousness ; let us leave tokens...

...the same spirit seems to have prevailed amongst the Hebrews. ' Let us fill ourselves,' says Solomon, with ' costly wine and ointments ; and let no flower...us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they DC withered.' But amongst that solemn and poetical people, they were commonly regarded in another and...

...they live this is their language: " Our life is short, and in the death of a man there is no remedy. Come on, therefore ; let us enjoy the good things...are present ; and let us speedily use the creatures as in our youth. Let us fill ourselves with. costly wines and ointments ; let no flowers of the spring...

...transition from stamens to germcns, in the same individual flower." Hooker. CLASS XII. ICOSANDRIA. " Let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown...ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered." WISDOM OP SOLOMON ii. 7-8. " * * * a circling row Of goodliest trees bade n with fairest fruit, Blossoms...

...reflections, in the second chapter of the Book of Wisdom! The author introduces the men of the world saying: " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...ourselves with Rose-buds, before they be withered Such things they did imagine, and were deceived, for their own wickedness hath blinded them. As for...

...into the mouth of a drunkard : " Let us fill ourselves," says he, " with costly wines and ornaments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before that they be withered."1 The tiara, or bonnet, called, in our translation of the Bible, the head-tire,...