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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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S. GREG. Mor. 25.

By how much the lesse, man sees himselfe, by so much the lesse hee displeases himselfe; And by how much the more hee sees the light of Grace, by so much the more hee disdaines the light of nature.