. Fables of Aesop and others. l-lains led in triumph to the altar of justice; while he hasmany a cheerful summers morning to enjoy abroad, andmany a long winters evening to indulge himself at home,by a quiet hearth, and under an unenvied roof: blessingswhich often attend a sober, industrious man, though theidle and profligate are utter strangers to them. ^SOPS FABLES. 1-21 Luxury and intemperance, besides their being certain toshorten a mans days, are very apt, not only to engage peoplewith their seeming charms, into a debauched lite, utterly pre-judicial to their health, but make them have a
. Fables of Aesop and others. l-lains led in triumph to the altar of justice; while he hasmany a cheerful summers morning to enjoy abroad, andmany a long winters evening to indulge himself at home,by a quiet hearth, and under an unenvied roof: blessingswhich often attend a sober, industrious man, though theidle and profligate are utter strangers to them. ^SOPS FABLES. 1-21 Luxury and intemperance, besides their being certain toshorten a mans days, are very apt, not only to engage peoplewith their seeming charms, into a debauched lite, utterly pre-judicial to their health, but make them have a contempt forotiiers, whose good sense and true taste of happiness inspirethem with an aversion to idleness and effeminacy, and put themupon hardening their constitution by innocent exercise, andlaudable employment. How many do gluttony and sloth tum-ble into an untimely grave? while the temperate and the activedrink sober drafts of life, and spin out their thread to the mostdesirable length. FAB. LIX. The Leopard and the The Leopard, one day, took it in his head to valuehimself upon the great variety and beauty of his spots;and truly he saw no reason why even the Lion shouldtake place of him, since he could not show so beauti-ful a skin. As for the rest of the wild beasts of theforests, he treated them all, without distinction, in themost haughty disdainful manner. But the Fox be-ing among them, went up to him with a great deal ofspirit and resolution, and told him, that he was mis- 122 ^SOPS FABLES. taken in the value he was pleased to set upon himself,since people of judgment were not used to form theiiopinion of merit from an outside appearance, but byconsidering the good qualities and endowments withwhich the mind was stored within. THE APPLICATION. How much more heavenly and powerful would beauty prove,if it were not so frequently impaired by the affectation and con-ceitedness of its possessor? If some women were but as modestand unassuming as they are handsome, they
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