FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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Reason seems to tell us, that the most de¬ 
vout and strict celibacy cannot be so accepta¬ 
ble to the Almighty as the faithful observance 
of the duties of husband and wife, parent, 
child, and neighbour. 
CHARITY. 
T ueni p. — iRapa . 
“ Turnips hide their swelling heads below.” 
Gay. 
Peacham pictures the month of November 
with bunches of parsnips and turnips in his 
right hand; and Guillim says, turnips were 
used in armorial bearings to represent a 
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person of good disposition, who relieved the 
poor. Hence we have made it the emblem 
of charity: 
Oh, charity ! our helpless nature’s pride. 
Thou friend to him who knows no friend beside : 
