FRONTISPIECE-A PRIMITIVE RURAL SCENE-CROSSING A BROOK.

TWELVE HUNDRED LACONICS AND APOTHEGMS RELATING TO

ETHICS, RELIGION, AND GENERAL LITERATURE;

ALSO,

FIVE HUNDRED RECEIPTS

ON

HYGEIAN, DOMESTIC, AND RURAL ECONOMY.

"Would you be strong? Go follow up the plough ;
Would you be thoughtful? Study fields and flowers;
Would you be wise! Take on yourself a vow
To go to school in Nature's sunny bowers.
Fly from the city; nothing there can charm-
Seek wisdom, strength, and virtue on a farm."

BY THE REV. JOHN L. BLAKE, D.D.

AUTHOR OF A FAMILY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENERAL LITERATURE
AND A GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Auburn, N. 1.

PUBLISHED BY DERBY, MILLER AND COMPANY.

1850.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by
JOHN L. BLAKE, D.D.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the District of New Jersey.

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