Lays and ballads from English history, etc . s. Col. Stanleys edition of this popular and amufmg workfold for ;£i2. FABLESAND ALLEGO-RIES, 2S. FABLES, STORIES, andALLEGORIES,a Selection of 131 of Beft Specimens extant, Excellent book for the young cloth, mtme-rous woodcuts, 2s. A very delightful little volume, one of themoft complete and unexceptional collectionsof Fables ever publifhed in this country, andbeing divefted of the ufual vulgarities andprolix morals, this may well ferve as a Read-ing Book for Schools, etc., and take the placeof objectionable publications. Fables, or wifdom in difg
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . s. Col. Stanleys edition of this popular and amufmg workfold for ;£i2. FABLESAND ALLEGO-RIES, 2S. FABLES, STORIES, andALLEGORIES,a Selection of 131 of Beft Specimens extant, Excellent book for the young cloth, mtme-rous woodcuts, 2s. A very delightful little volume, one of themoft complete and unexceptional collectionsof Fables ever publifhed in this country, andbeing divefted of the ufual vulgarities andprolix morals, this may well ferve as a Read-ing Book for Schools, etc., and take the placeof objectionable publications. Fables, or wifdom in difguife, from the MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOIVER STREET. pleafure with which they are perufcd, are ex-tremely valuable as a medium of conveyinginftruction. I took a particular delight in hearing the Fables that arecome from father to fon, and are moft in vogue; for it is im-poffible that anything fhould be univerfally tafted and ap-proved of by a multitude, which hath not in it fome peculiaraptnefs to pleafe and gratify the mind of man. — ^^T FABLES AND PARABLES, 2S. FEMALE HEROISM, TALES OF, 5s. FABLES and PARABLES, both Ancientand Modern, 334 collected, with a Sketchof Fabulous Literature. Volume of rare merit,the moft compact and unexceptional ever pub-lifhed in this country Alfo 122 Fables, from^Efop, Phaedrus, Dodfley, Croxall, &c, clothgilt, 2S. Contents.—Fables and Parables, chiefly translated, forthe firft time, from the Germans, that moft reflecting people ofmodern times. Many, efpecially the allegorical Parables ofHerder, are marked by great beauty of expreffion, thofe ofLeffmg are amongft the beft models of the Fable, ftrictlyfo called. Of Krummacher, Gellert, Herder, Schreiber,Meiffner, and others, it is unneceffary to fpeak. They can-not fail to intereft. Moft inftructive, as well as highly entertaining. FEMALE HEROISM, or PLUTARCH,24 moft interefting and authentic Biographi-cal Stories of HEROINES, of moderntimes and of various countries. Selected andwritten
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