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ilClUVCUS UObilis. Natural Order: Laiiracctr — Laurel Fa7nily. 



AUREL is a shrub which grows in heiglit from four to six- 

 feet, having a liberal supply of beautiful evergreen foliage, which 



^ w as much used by the ancients in decorating the brows of their 

 hei oes. Chaplets of Laurel were given as a reward to orators, 

 1^^ philosophers and poets, ^sculapius, the god of physic, 



" ^ wears a crown of laurel, because of its power in the cure 

 ol diseases Daphne is said to have been changed into a laurel when 

 she fkd iiom the embrace of Apollo, whence its botanical name; and 

 Luueola, lauius (laurel), seem allied to the Latin laus, praise. The 

 Lauiel tiee is of a very hot, acrid nature. It is always flourishing, 

 never old, and conduces, according to the ancients, to divination and 

 poetic raptures. The leaves, when put under the pillow, are said to 

 produce true dreams. 



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p LORIES, like glow-worms, afar oft" shine bright; 

 ^ But look'd too near, have neither lieat or light. 



AND should the aspiring man, 

 ■^ Of other's hurts, not hurt 



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5, not hurt himself for gain? 

 Not, when he stabs another for a purse, 

 Prick his own bosom for a dearer price, 

 And wound his heart to laurel-crown his head. 



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iLAS for human greatness! and alas 



For glory's splendor on a mortal brow! 

 The stateliest realms must down to ruin pas 

 And mightiest monarchs to a mightier bow; 

 Alas! will death ne'er spare a gallant foe.' 



-C. W. Ev. 



/^LORY, like time, progi-ession does require; 

 ^ When it does cease t' .advance, it does expire. 



—Lord Orrery. 



pLORY is like a circle in the water, 

 " Which never ceaseth to en&rge itself, 

 Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 

 —Shakespec 



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"H.\T is glory.' Wh.it 

 The echo of a long-lost name; 

 .\ breath, an idle hour's brief talk. 



■pOR this world's glory 



-'■ Is figur'd in the moon ; they both wax dull, 



And sulTer their eclipses in the full. ^Aleyn. 



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