Excerpt from Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart, And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man His numerous publications - consisting principally of poetical paraphrases of the Scriptures - enable us to form a just estimate of his religious character and tenets; but otherwise they afford us no insight what ever, either into his own personal history, or that of the stirring period in which it was his lot to be cast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.