. Fables of Aesop and others. can, be observed in every action ofour lives. But vanity and peevishness dispose us too often to 33i> ^SOPS FABLES. break it; one makes us ascribe that to our own good addresswhich is owing to some accident; the other puts us upon charg-ing Fortune or somebody besides ourselves, with tliat ill suc-cess, for which we may probably be indebted to our own stu-pidity and negligence only. What titles of honour, what stafions of dignity, what places of profit in church and state arenow and then possessed by duil useless wretches! who neveronce dreamt that they were ob
. Fables of Aesop and others. can, be observed in every action ofour lives. But vanity and peevishness dispose us too often to 33i> ^SOPS FABLES. break it; one makes us ascribe that to our own good addresswhich is owing to some accident; the other puts us upon charg-ing Fortune or somebody besides ourselves, with tliat ill suc-cess, for which we may probably be indebted to our own stu-pidity and negligence only. What titles of honour, what stafions of dignity, what places of profit in church and state arenow and then possessed by duil useless wretches! who neveronce dreamt that they were obliged to Fortune alone for theirhappiness in obtaining them. Yet if the. case were quite other-wise, if these places had been filled with men of known abili-ties, and those creatures left low and undistinguished as theirown merit, it is ten to one but they would have cursed theirstars, fretted in their ill luck, and stormed at the barbaroustreatment of tiieir capricious Fortune. FAB. CLXXXVI. The Ape and Jiertivo Young An Ape having two young ones, was doatingly fondol one, but disregarded and slighted the other. Oneday she chanced to be surprised by the hunters, andhad much ado to get off. However, she did not for-get her favourite young one, which she took up in .ESOPS FABLES. 333 her arms, that it might be the more secure; the other,which she neglected, by natural instinct leapt uponher back, and so away they scampered together.—But it unluckily fell out, that the Dam, in her pre-cipitate flight, blinded with haste, dashed her favour-ites head against a stone, and killed it. The hatedone climbing close to her rough back, escaped all thodanger of the pursuit. THE APPLICATION. This fable is designed to expose the folly of some parents,who, by indulging and humouring their favourite children, spoiland ruin them; while those, of whom they have been the leastfond have done very well. The child that knows it can com-mand its parents affections, will hardly be brought to k
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