 | Aesop - Fables - 1792 - 380 pages
...have here. I make nT B fcrup9 fcruple of declaring that my tafte lies quite another way ; and 1 had rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the Jewels under the fun." THE APPLICATION. THERE are feveral people in the world, that pafs, with fome for wel!-accompli(h:d... | |
 | Animal painting and illustration - 1811 - 304 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring, that my taste lies quite another way ; and I would rather have one grain of dear, delicious barley, than all the Jewels under the sun. * . THE APPLICATION. There are several people in the world that pass with some for well-accomplished... | |
 | Aesopus - 1818 - 428 pages
...business you have here. I make noscruple of declaring, that my taste lies quite another way; and I had rather have one grain of dear, delicious barley, than all the Jewels under the sun. ways, some of them ascribing the want of setting a proper value upon the Jewel, to ignorance,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring that my taste lies quite another way, and I had rather have one grain of dear, delicious barley, than all the jewels under the sun.' " There is the fable, and here follows the little tale that put us in mind of it. CHAP.... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - Death - 1856 - 360 pages
...reception of some gaudy and expensive bagatelle, are ready to exclaim, with the cock in ^Esop — "I had rather have one grain of dear, delicious, barley ', than all the jewels under the sun /" I am not so Utopian, as to anticipate any immediate or very extensive reformation,... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - Death - 1856 - 368 pages
...reception of some gaudy and expensive bagatelle, are ready to exclaim, with the cock in jEsop — " I had rather have one grain of dear, delicious, barley, than all the jewels under the sun /" I am not so Utopian, as to anticipate any immediate or very extensive reformation,... | |
 | Aesopus - 1859 - 226 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring, that my tasto lies quite another way : and I had rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the jewels raider the sun." TUB APPLICATION. — There arc several people in the world that pass with some for... | |
 | Aesopus - 1861 - 254 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring that my taste He* quite another way ; and I had rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the Jewels under the sun." APPLICATION. There are several people iii the world that pass, with some, for well... | |
 | Aesop - Fables - 1863 - 372 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring that my taste lies quite another w»y ; and I would rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the jewels under the sun. THE APPLICATION. There are several people in the world that pass, with some, for well... | |
 | Aesop - Animals - 1865 - 340 pages
...business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring that my taste lies quite another way ; and I had rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the jewels under the sun." APPLICATION. There are several people in the world that pass, with some, for well-accomplished... | |
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Indeed, you are a very fine thing; but I know not any business you have here. I make no scruple of declaring that my taste lies quite another way ; and I had rather have one grain of dear delicious barley, than all the jewels under the sun. 
