- Full Text
- Despise the world with all its fading joys
Compared with Heaven are but trifling toys.
- Listed on Page Number
- 279
- Sampler Worked By
- Abigail Hallek
- Date of Sampler
- 1750
- Place Sampler Made
- Mystic, CT
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 50
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Shelley, George. Sentences and Maxims Divine, Moral, and Historical…London, England. 1712.
- Notes
- Also Stitched by:
Sally Miller, 1783, Middletown, CT, p. 64;
Hannah Spooner, 1785, n.p., p. 76.
George Shelley, English writing master, influenced the development of various fonts still in use today. In his preface to this work he states that he has collected these phrases but doesn’t cite their sources. The date printed in this first edition is a typo of 1612. 1712 is agreed as correct.
The 1712 text is the same in its first line and reads, “Compar’d with Heav’nly Things, they’re trifling Toys.” The 3rd ed., 1752 is unchanged.
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