Fables of Aesop and OthersS. Probasco, 1831 - 358 стор. |
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able advantage Æsop agreeable APPLICATION asked bad company beasts beauty behaviour better bramble city of Westminster Cock consider creature danger daugh death deserve desire Eagle endeavour enemy Esop esteem expose eyes fable favour fear fellow fool forbear fortune Frog give Goat happened happy heart honest honour idle impertinent intended Jackdaw Jupiter kind king Kite labour least liberty Lion live look mankind manner master means mind misfortune Mouse nature neighbours never obliged observed occasion ourselves passion person Phædrus piece Pisistratus pleasure politic ministers poor pray proper ready to die reason replied resolved revenge Reynard ridiculous says scarce secure sense silly Stag suffer sure temper thing thought tincture tion took Tortoise true virtue Wheel of Fortune whole wicked wise Wolf wretch young
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Сторінка 325 - 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.
Сторінка xv - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Сторінка 288 - While extremists may find some fault with the moderation of our platform, they should recollect that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift.
Сторінка 289 - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. A Wolf clothing himself in the skin of a sheep, and getting in among the flock, by this means took the opportunity to devour many of them. At last the Shepherd discovered him, and cunningly fastening a rope about his neck, tied him up to a tree which stood hard by. Some other Shepherds happening to pass that way, and observing what he was about, drew near, and expressed their admiration at it. What, says one of them, brother, do you make hanging of sheep? No...
Сторінка 122 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Сторінка 236 - A dog was lying upon a manger full of hay. An ox, being hungry, came near, and offered to eat of the hay ; but the envious, illnatured cur, getting up and snarling at him, would not suffer him to touch it. Upon which, the ox in the bitterness of his heart, exclaimed, A curse light on thee, for a malicious wretch, who will neither eat the hay thyself, nor suffer others who are hungry to do it.
Сторінка 32 - A DOG, crossing a little rivulet with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own Shadow represented in the clear mirror of the limpid stream; and believing it to be another Dog, who was carrying another piece of flesh, he could not forbear catching at it; but...
Сторінка 300 - ... water. Soon after, a Wolf came and peeped over the brink; to whom the Fox applied himself very earnestly for assistance; entreating that he would help him to a rope, or something of that kind, which might favour his escape. The Wolf, moved with compassion at his misfortune, could not forbear expressing his concern. Ah! poor Reynard...
Сторінка 62 - A VIPER entering a smith's shop, looked up and down for something to eat; and seeing a File, fell to gnawing it as greedily as could be. The File told him, very gruffly, that he had best be quiet and let him alone ; for he would get very little by nibbling at one who, upon occasion, could bite iron and steel.
Сторінка 74 - ... able to disengage himself, he set up a most hideous and loud roar. The mouse, hearing the voice, and knowing it to be the lion's, immediately repaired to the place, and bid him fear nothing, for that he was his friend.