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... these Find pastime . Paradife Loft.b.8.1.370 . A NEW EDITION . 5 Ja Lodne 30 . LONDON " rinted for Will " Ofborne & Jn.Mozely . Gainfborough . ( Price Three Shillings bound . ) • THE PREFACE . THE fables of Efop have always SELECT FABLES.
... these Find pastime . Paradife Loft.b.8.1.370 . A NEW EDITION . 5 Ja Lodne 30 . LONDON " rinted for Will " Ofborne & Jn.Mozely . Gainfborough . ( Price Three Shillings bound . ) • THE PREFACE . THE fables of Efop have always SELECT FABLES.
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... these ; and then to collect from writers of good credit what may be related of him with more probability . The great distorter both of Efop's life and perfon , is one Planudes ; an eaftern monk , who lived at Conftantinople [ a ] toward ...
... these ; and then to collect from writers of good credit what may be related of him with more probability . The great distorter both of Efop's life and perfon , is one Planudes ; an eaftern monk , who lived at Conftantinople [ a ] toward ...
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... these fictions , mistakes , and ab- furdities , when confidered together , it must fufficiently appear , that Planudes ought to be rejected , as an evidence of no credit at all ; and I fhall therefore , in the following account , lay ...
... these fictions , mistakes , and ab- furdities , when confidered together , it must fufficiently appear , that Planudes ought to be rejected , as an evidence of no credit at all ; and I fhall therefore , in the following account , lay ...
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... these Geniuses in the picture ; the Efopian Fables being divided into three forts . The rational , in which Men only are introduced ; the charactered , were only Beafts , under characters affigned to them ; and the mixt , in which both ...
... these Geniuses in the picture ; the Efopian Fables being divided into three forts . The rational , in which Men only are introduced ; the charactered , were only Beafts , under characters affigned to them ; and the mixt , in which both ...
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... these difficult and puzzling queftions ; but is as unkind in fpecifying m ] Plutarch , p . 150 , E. [ 2 ] The tafte of the knowing , in Efop's time , was to findy rules for the conduct of life ; and to make wife fentences or proverbs ...
... these difficult and puzzling queftions ; but is as unkind in fpecifying m ] Plutarch , p . 150 , E. [ 2 ] The tafte of the knowing , in Efop's time , was to findy rules for the conduct of life ; and to make wife fentences or proverbs ...
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