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Aesopus. many here who with mere lip service have pretended to shew you their loyalty ; but for my part , from the moment I heard of your majesty's illness , neglecting useless compliments , I employed myself day and night to enquire ...
Aesopus. many here who with mere lip service have pretended to shew you their loyalty ; but for my part , from the moment I heard of your majesty's illness , neglecting useless compliments , I employed myself day and night to enquire ...
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... shew them that the most deserving are generally the least ambitious , whereas the worthless grasp at power with eagerness , and exercise it with insolence and tyranny , spake to them in the following manner : E Hearken unto me , ye men ...
... shew them that the most deserving are generally the least ambitious , whereas the worthless grasp at power with eagerness , and exercise it with insolence and tyranny , spake to them in the following manner : E Hearken unto me , ye men ...
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... shews the difference between a Court and a Country Life : The delights , innocence , and security of the one , com- pared with the anxiety , voluptuousness , and hazards of the other . Heav'n in one mould the kindred fate has cast Of ...
... shews the difference between a Court and a Country Life : The delights , innocence , and security of the one , com- pared with the anxiety , voluptuousness , and hazards of the other . Heav'n in one mould the kindred fate has cast Of ...
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... shew that there are others as miserable as themselves . It may seem to be a kind of a malicious satisfac- tion that one man derives from the misfortune of another . But the philosophy of this reflection stands upon another ground ; for ...
... shew that there are others as miserable as themselves . It may seem to be a kind of a malicious satisfac- tion that one man derives from the misfortune of another . But the philosophy of this reflection stands upon another ground ; for ...
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... shews the folly and the fate of pride and arrogance ; and the mistake of placing happiness in anything that may be taken away ; as also the blessing of freedom in a mean estate . Proud of the clothes with which you are equipt , You of ...
... shews the folly and the fate of pride and arrogance ; and the mistake of placing happiness in anything that may be taken away ; as also the blessing of freedom in a mean estate . Proud of the clothes with which you are equipt , You of ...
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Æsop appear bad company bear beasts beauty bird bliss boast Bramble Butterfly Cock Columbo creature Croesus cry'd cuts danger death Eagle edition endeavour engraved envy Esop ev'ry eyes Fabulist fate fear fell flies folly fool fortune Frogs give happened happy heart Heav'n honest honour humble Idmon King Kite labour Lion live mankind manner master mind mischief MORALS Mouse nature neighbour never o'er Oliver Goldsmith pain peace Pepper-Box Periander Philostratus pleasure poor pow'r pray present pretend prey pride pro bono publico Quadrupeds reason REFLECTION replied rest Reynard Saint says scarce scorn Select Fables sense shew Sir Roger L'Estrange snare soon sure tell thee thing Thomas Bewick thou thought Tis green tree true truth Twas virtue wings wisdom wise Wolf wood wretch young
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Page xxxvi - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Page 251 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 224 - ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking ; We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things, which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 249 - And what a length of tail behind! How slow its pace! And then its hue, — Who ever saw so fine a blue?
Page 253 - So soon, d'ye call it !' Death replies. ' Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore.
Page 248 - OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been To see whatever could be seen.
Page xxvii - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 249 - I've seen it, sir, as well as you, And must again affirm it blue; At leisure I the beast surveyed Extended in the cooling shade.
Page xxxvi - ... pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.» 10 scimus, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni. Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis...
Page 250 - I'll eat him." He said : then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo! — 'twas white. Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise — "My children," the chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), "You all are right, and all are wrong: When next you talk of what you view, Think others see as well as you: Nor wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own.