 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - Religious education - 1812 - 402 pages
...that means dropt the meat from his month, which sunk to the bottom, and was quite lost. MOJIAL. — He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly deserves to lose what he has. Instruction. — The dog in this fable represents a greedy person, who cares for nobody but himself;... | |
 | Aesopus - 1818 - 428 pages
...APPLICATION. Base is the man who pines amidst his store, And fat with plenty, griping covets more. to him, justly deserves to lose what he has. Yet nothing is more common, and, at the same tune more pernicious, than this selfish principle. It prevails from the king to the peasant; and all... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - Fables - 1820 - 384 pages
...better to pursue the dictates of one's own reason, than attempt to please all mankind. SELECT FABLES. 21 THE DOG AND THE SHADOW. A DOG, crossing a little rivulet...prevails from the king to the peasant; and all orders 22 SELECT FABLES. and degrees of men are, more or less, infected with it. Great monarchs have been... | |
 | Jesse Torrey (the younger.) - Readers, American - 1830 - 162 pages
...had in his mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost. APPLICATION. 2. He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly deserves to lose what he has. FABLE III. The Dog and the Wolf. 1. A LEAN, hungry, half-starved wolf, happened one moonshiny night,... | |
 | Aesop - Aesop's fables - 1831 - 370 pages
...irrecoverably lost. THE APPLICATION. Tie that catches at more than belongs to him, justly deserve* to lose what he has. Yet nothing is more common, and at th« same time more pernicious, than this selfish principle. It prevails from the king to the peasant;... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...his mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost. — JEsop. Application. -APOSIOPESI8. § 626. APOSIOPESIS, from the Greek dnoaiomjois, a retaining' or suppression, is leaving... | |
 | Francis E. Brewster - Conduct of life - 1851 - 470 pages
...object of desire. The fables of the dog and the shadow, and the man and his goose, teach us that he who catches at more than belongs to him justly deserves to lose what he has; and that we are too prone to entertain a desire for things at a distance, which, if we had them, might... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...his mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost. — JEsop. Application. He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly deserves to lose what he has. APOSIOPESIS. § 441. APOSIOPESIS, from the Greek aposiopesis, a retaining or suppression, is leaving... | |
 | Aesopus - 1859 - 226 pages
...in his mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost. THE APPLICATION. — He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly...degrees of men are more or less infected with it. Great mouarchs have been drawn in, by this greedy humour, to grasp at the dominion of their neighbours ;... | |
 | Aesop - Fables - 1863 - 372 pages
...had in his mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost. THE APPLICATION. He that catches at more than belongs to him, justly...what he has. Yet nothing is more common, and at the samc time more pernicious, than this selfish principle. It prevails from the king to the peasant; and... | |
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Shadow represented in the clear mirror of the limpid stream; and believing it to be another Dog, who was carrying another piece of flesh, he could not forbear catching at it; but was so far from getting any thing by his greedy design, that he dropt the... 
