 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...but what did I fay ? — I miftake — it is your bull that has killed one of my oxen. Indeed ! lays the Lawyer, that alters the cafe : I muft enquire...you been as ready to do juftice to. others, as to cxiict it from them. LXXXIV. The LXXXIV. The HERMlT and the BEAR. AN imprudent friend often does as... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Aesop - Aesop's fables - 1765 - 346 pages
...return. It is no more than juftice, quoth the Farmer, to be fure; but what_did I fay ? — I miftake — It is your bull that has killed one of my oxen. Indeed!...had you been as ready to do juftice to, others as to exacT: it from them. FABLE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR- LENOX TJI,DEN FOU NBATIONS jf ABLE XXVI.... | |
 | several hands - 1774 - 598 pages
...the cafe, I muft enquire into the affair, and if — " " And if ! faid the farmer, — the bufincfs, I find, would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do juftice to others, as to exact it from them." — If our Author's fables have not the merit of new invention, they have indifputably... | |
 | English poetry - 1774 - 426 pages
...alters the cafe, I muft enquire into the affair, and if " ' And if! faid the farmer, — the bufmefs, I find, would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do juftice to others, as to exaQ it from them." — —If our author's fables have not the merit of new invention, they have indifputably... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Aesop's fables - 1781 - 318 pages
...Indeed ! fays the Lawyer, that alters the cafe : I mufl enquire into the affair ; and if — And if I faid the Farmer — the bufinefs I find •would have...had you been as ready to do juftice to others as to exact it from them. FABLE XXVI, FABLE XXVI. The Fox that had loft his Tail.' A FOX having been unwarily... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1789 - 340 pages
...the cafe : I muft inquire into the affair, and if — And ^".' interrupted the farmer ; the bulinefs I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been rs ready to do juftice to others as to exact it from them.. • \ • • ( " - - • * 46. • , .... | |
 | Baldwin Janson - Dutch language - 1803 - 338 pages
...the café : I muft enquire into the affair ; and if, (en M)—And if! faid the farmer, the builnefs I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do juftice to others as you exaol it from the m. A wolf peeping into a hut, where a company of ihepherds were regaling themfelves... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1805 - 260 pages
...Lawyer, that alters the cafe: I muft inquire into the affair; and if—And if! faid the Farmer—the bufinefs I find would have been concluded without...had you been as ready to do juftice to others as to exact it from them. F ABLE XXVI. ; The Fox that bad kjl his Tail. A FOX having been unwarily caught... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1800 - 338 pages
...oxen. Indeed ! fays the Lawyer, that alters the cafe : I muft inquire into the affair ; and//" — And if! faid the Farmer — the bufinefs I find would...concluded without an if, had you been as ready to dojuftice '' to others as to exaft it from them. FABLE XXVI. The Fox that had loft his Tail. A FOX... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 254 pages
...! fays the lawyer, that alters the cafe ; I muft enquire into tl: ••affair; and if — And iff faid the farmer— the bufinefs, I find, would have...had you been as ready to do juftice to others, as to exact it froa them. CHAPTER LXXV. THE PICTURE. IR William Lely, a famous painter in the feign ol Charles... | |
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It is no more than justice, quoth the Farmer, to be sure : But, what did I say ? — I mistake. It is your bull that has killed one of my oxen. Indeed ! says the Lawyer ; that alters the case : I must inquire into the affair ; and if — And IF ! said... 
