 | Aesopus - 1818 - 428 pages
...artifices of those whose designs are to gull and impose upon them. i"» --"" -"••"' lHIIIl l II l THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher which he beheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it, indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Aesopus - 1820 - 102 pages
...should give the preference to intrinsic worth, rather than to empty shew and splendour. FABLE XXXI. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher, which he beheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - Fables - 1820 - 388 pages
...a man more and more unworthy of it, and miserable beforehand, for fear of being so afterwards. 119 THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher which he beheld at some distance. When he came he found water in it, but so near the bottom, that with... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 366 pages
...gifts that you possess, Nor deem a rival's merit makes yours less. , ©rofo an& tfje [From CROXALL.] A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a PITCHER,• which he beheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 388 pages
...possess, Nor deem a rival's merit makes yours less. FABLE XCVII. (ZCrofo aito tjje [From CROXALL.] A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a PITCHER, which he beheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1833 - 438 pages
...wine, that they improve by age, still when occasional!) presented, they may not IKS unacceptable : A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which be beheld ai some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Thomas James - Fables, Greek - 1848 - 290 pages
...so," said the Lamb: "it is better to be sacrificed to God, than to be devoured by you." FABLE XLVII. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. , A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which he saw at a distance. But when he came up to it, he found the Abater so low that with all his... | |
 | Aesopus - 1850 - 300 pages
...them he hroken hy tale-hearer• and whisperers, or ayy other contrivance of our enemies. FABLE LIII. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher, which he heheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, hut BO near the hottom,... | |
 | Aesop - Fables - 1850 - 366 pages
...them be broken by tale-bearers and whisperers, or any other contrivance of our enemies. FAB, LIII. The Crow and the Pitcher. A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher, which he beheld at some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 pages
...SIMPLE NARRATIVE. Reduce the following narratives into heads, suggestive of the contents. EXAMPLE. The Crow and the Pitcher. A crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher which he beheld at some distance. When he came to it, he found water, indeed, but so near the bottom,... | |
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THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which he beheld at some distance. 
