. Fables of Aesop and others. dsupporting them one way or other. What is it that occasionsparties, but the ambitious or avaricious spirit of men in eminentstations, who want to engross all power in their own hands? up-on this they frment divisions, and form factions, and excite ani-mosities between well meaning, but undeserving people, wholittle think that the great aim of their leaders is no more than theadvancement of their own private self-interest. The good of thepublic is always pretended upon such occasions, and may some-times happen to be tacked to their own; but then it is purely ac-ci
. Fables of Aesop and others. dsupporting them one way or other. What is it that occasionsparties, but the ambitious or avaricious spirit of men in eminentstations, who want to engross all power in their own hands? up-on this they frment divisions, and form factions, and excite ani-mosities between well meaning, but undeserving people, wholittle think that the great aim of their leaders is no more than theadvancement of their own private self-interest. The good of thepublic is always pretended upon such occasions, and may some-times happen to be tacked to their own; but then it is purely ac-cidental, and was never originally intended. One knows not to prescribe against so epidemical and frequent a mala-dy, but only, that every man who has sense enough to discernthe pitiful private views that attend most of the differences be-tween the great ones, instead of aiding or abetting either party,would with an honest courage, heartily and openly oppose both, 45SUPS FABLES. m FAB. XVI. The Kite and the .„,„.„..,,iiMMm[tillHtiHiltUititiiiltij!n;i!Uiigi --~-^ A Kite, who had kept sailing in the air for manydays near a dove house, and made a stoop at severalPigeons, but all to no purpose, (for they were toonimble for him,) at last had recourse to stratagem;and took his opportunity one day, to make a declara-tion to them, in which he set forth his own just andgood intentions, who had nothing more at heart, thanthe defence and protection of the Pigeons in their an-cient, rights and liberties, and how concerned he wasat their fears and jealousies of a foreign invasion; es-pecially their unjust and unreasonable suspicions ofhimself, as if he intended, by force of arms, to breakin upon their constitution, and erect a tyrannical gov-ernment over them. To prevent all which, and tho-roughly to quiet their minds, he thought proper topropose to them such terms of alliance and articles ofpeace, as might for ever cement a good
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