 CAT having devoured her matter's favourite •**• bulfinch, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In this diftrefs fhe preferred a prayer to Jupiter ; vowing, if he would deliver her from her prefent danger, that...  Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists - Page 85by Robert Dodsley, Aesop - 1765 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...mafter, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In this diftrefs, fhe preferred a prayer to Jupiter ; vowing, if he would...was purring in the window. The queftion was, how to nct upon fo tempting »n occafion ? Her appetite prefled hard on one fide ; and her vow threw fome... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1805 - 260 pages
...Bulfinch, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In this diftrefs fhe preferred a prayer to Jupiter; vowing, if he would deliver her from her prefentdanger, that never while fhe fived would fhe eat another Bird. Not long afterward, a Bat rnoft... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1809 - 316 pages
...bulfinch, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In this diftrefs fhe preferred a prayer to Jupiter ; vowing, if he would...to act upon fo tempting an occafion ? Her appetite prefied hard on one fide ; and her vow threw fome fcruples in her way on the other. At length fhe hit... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...bulfinch, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In this distress she preferred a prayer to Jupiter, vowing, if he would deliver her from her present danger, that never while she lived would she eat another bird. Not long afterwards, a bat most... | |
 | Aesopus - 1881 - 464 pages
...bullfinch, overheard him threatening to put her to death the moment he could find her. In her distress she preferred a prayer to Jupiter, vowing, if he would deliver her from her present danger, that never while she lived would she eat another bird. Not long afterwards a Bat most... | |
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