. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FABLE THE FROG AND THE FOX. A FROG, leaping out of a lake, and taking theadvantage of a rising ground, made proclama-tion to all the beasts of the forest, that he wasan able physician, and, for curing all manner ofdistempers, would turn his back to no personliving. This discourse, uttered in a parcel ofhard, cramp words, which nobody understood,made the beasts admire his learning, and givecredit to every thing he said. At last the Fox,who was present, with indignation asked him,how he could have the impudence,
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FABLE THE FROG AND THE FOX. A FROG, leaping out of a lake, and taking theadvantage of a rising ground, made proclama-tion to all the beasts of the forest, that he wasan able physician, and, for curing all manner ofdistempers, would turn his back to no personliving. This discourse, uttered in a parcel ofhard, cramp words, which nobody understood,made the beasts admire his learning, and givecredit to every thing he said. At last the Fox,who was present, with indignation asked him,how he could have the impudence, with thosethin lantern-jaws, that meagre pale phiz, andblotched spotted body, to set up for one whowas able to cure the infirmities of others. APPLICATION. A sickly, infirm look, is as disadvantageousin a physician, as that of a rake in a clergy-man, or a sheepish one in a soldier. If thismoral contains any thing further, it is, that we 8 FABLE IV. should not set up for rectifying enormities inothers, wliile we labour under the same our-selves. Good advice ought always to be fol-lowed
Size: 1846px × 1354px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcroxallsa, bookcentury1800, bookidsopsfableswith00crox
