FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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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. 
