FLORAL EMBLEMS. 247 



This beautiful species of the lily tribe varies 

 not more in its colours than pride does in its 

 qualities. Man without 



" The honest pride of conscious virtue/' 



is a mere animal, a sloth. Man, with pride 

 of the insolent kind is lower than the brute. 

 Man, who permits his self-esteem to " Peep 

 through each part of him," is to be pitied as a 

 frivolous insect that struts through its short 

 summer ; whilst the man, whose pride consists 

 in the elevation of a generous heart, has the 

 feelings of a celestial being, and must ever be 

 regarded as the most elevated of his species. 



The miser is proud of his wealth ; the spend- 

 thrift of his extravagance ; the hypocrite of 

 his cunning ; the honest man of his integrity ; 

 the sloven of his filth ; the beau of his neat- 

 ness ; the coxcomb of his dash ; and the quaker 

 of his prim formality. And arrogance is not 

 more proud of the wounds it inflicts, than 

 benevolence is of the balm it bestows. 



