Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ...J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1781 - 228 страници |
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... fubject of one of them ; who was a rival of Demofthenes , and confequently lived above 150 years after Efop and in the moral of another , he goes fo far as to mention the order of monks , which did not fubfift til near a thousand years ...
... fubject of one of them ; who was a rival of Demofthenes , and confequently lived above 150 years after Efop and in the moral of another , he goes fo far as to mention the order of monks , which did not fubfift til near a thousand years ...
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... fubject . X Here Meliffa and Eumetis " withdraw ; the company falls into a mixt converfation ; and Efop , who had been blamed himself be- fore for a digreffion from the fubject then in hand , tells them a 2 Fable of the Wolf and ...
... fubject . X Here Meliffa and Eumetis " withdraw ; the company falls into a mixt converfation ; and Efop , who had been blamed himself be- fore for a digreffion from the fubject then in hand , tells them a 2 Fable of the Wolf and ...
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... fubject of œconomics is re- fumed ; and Cleobulus being asked , what is a competency ? begins with mentioning an old vulgar story , about making a coat for the moon ; and a Fable of Efop's , on a Dog's contracting himself in winter ...
... fubject of œconomics is re- fumed ; and Cleobulus being asked , what is a competency ? begins with mentioning an old vulgar story , about making a coat for the moon ; and a Fable of Efop's , on a Dog's contracting himself in winter ...
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... fubject , fays , there had been falfe accounts published of it ; and proposes his as a true one . h Και ὁ Αίσωπος , οιον ελεγκτικος -εn , & c . Plut . p . 152. - Derifor potiùs , quàm deridendus Senex . Phæd . lib . 3. fab . 14. -For a ...
... fubject , fays , there had been falfe accounts published of it ; and proposes his as a true one . h Και ὁ Αίσωπος , οιον ελεγκτικος -εn , & c . Plut . p . 152. - Derifor potiùs , quàm deridendus Senex . Phæd . lib . 3. fab . 14. -For a ...
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... his Son , " and " the Court and Country Moufe , ” they must naturally arife out of the fubject , and ferve to illuftrate and enforce the Moral . c 3 SECT . SECT . III . Of the Perfons , Characters , AN ESSAY ON FABLE . liii.
... his Son , " and " the Court and Country Moufe , ” they must naturally arife out of the fubject , and ferve to illuftrate and enforce the Moral . c 3 SECT . SECT . III . Of the Perfons , Characters , AN ESSAY ON FABLE . liii.
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