. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . d to caress andmake much of the Old Hound, when be waspast doing any service, it had not been verystrange; but to treat a poor creature ill, notfor a failure of inclination, but merely a defectof nature, must, notwithstanding the crowd ofexamples there are to countenance it, be pro-nounced inliuvnan and unreasonable. There are two accounts upon which peoplethat have been useful are frequently , when they are so decayed, either throughage or some accident, that they are no longerable to do the services t
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . d to caress andmake much of the Old Hound, when be waspast doing any service, it had not been verystrange; but to treat a poor creature ill, notfor a failure of inclination, but merely a defectof nature, must, notwithstanding the crowd ofexamples there are to countenance it, be pro-nounced inliuvnan and unreasonable. There are two accounts upon which peoplethat have been useful are frequently , when they are so decayed, either throughage or some accident, that they are no longerable to do the services they have formerly done ;the other, when the occasion or emergencywhich required such talents, no longer , who more than once complains of thebad consequences of age, makes no other ap-plication to this fable than by telling his friendPhiletus, with some regret, that he wrote it withsuch a view; having, it seems, been repaidwith neglect, or worse usage, for services donein his youth to those who were then able to af-ford him a better recompense. FABLE LXV. 135. JUPITER AND THE CAMEL. X HE Camel presented a petition to Jupiter,complaining of the hardship of his case, in nothaving, like bulls and other creatures, horns, orany weapons of defence, to protect himselffrom the attacks of his enemies, and prayingthat relief might be giv^en him in such manneras might be thought most expedient. Jupitercould not help smiling at the impertinent ad-dress of the great silly beast, but, however, re-jected the petition; and told him that, so farfrom granting his unreasonable request, hence-forward he would take care his ears should beshortened, as a punishment for his presumptuousimportunity. APPLICATION-. The nature of things is so fixed in every par-ticular, that they are very weak superstitiouspeople who dream it is to be altered. But, be- 136 FABLE LXV. sides the impossibility of producing a changeby addresses of this nature, they who employmuch of their time upon such accou
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