. Fables of Aesop and others. ence hardened in iniquity, and a mindversed in a long practice of wrong and robbery; remonstrances,however reasonably urged, or movingly couched, have no moreinfluence upon the heart of such a one, than the gentle breezehas upon the oak, when it whispers among its branches; or therising surges upon the deaf rock, when they dash and breakagainst its sides. Power should never be trusted in the hands of an impiousselfish man, and one that has more regard to the gratificationof his own unbounded avarice, and to public peace and it not for that tacit conse
. Fables of Aesop and others. ence hardened in iniquity, and a mindversed in a long practice of wrong and robbery; remonstrances,however reasonably urged, or movingly couched, have no moreinfluence upon the heart of such a one, than the gentle breezehas upon the oak, when it whispers among its branches; or therising surges upon the deaf rock, when they dash and breakagainst its sides. Power should never be trusted in the hands of an impiousselfish man, and one that has more regard to the gratificationof his own unbounded avarice, and to public peace and it not for that tacit consent and heartless compliance of agreat majority of fools, mankind would not be rode, as oftentimesthey are, by a little majority of knaves, to their misfortune; forwhatever people may think of the times, if they were ten timesworse than they are, it is principally owing to their own stupidity: why do they trust the man a moment longer who ba^once injured and betrayed tl«ra? 336 ^SOPS FABLES. FAB. CXXIX. The Dog in the Mangerc. A Dog was laying upon a manger full of hay. AnOx b(^ing hungry, came near, and offered to eat of thehay; but the envious ill-natured cur, getting up andsnarlincr at him, would not suffer him to touch which the Ox, in the bitterness of his heart, said,a curse light on thee for a malicious wretch, who willneither eat hay thyself, nor suffer others to do it! THE APPLICATION. Envy is the most unnatural and unaccountable of all the pas-sions. There is scarce any other emotion of the mind, howeverunreasonable, but may have something said in excuse for itand there are many of these weaknesses of the soul, which, not-withstanding the wrongness and irregularity of them, swell theheart, while they last, with pleasure and gladness. But theenvious man has no such apology as this to make; the strongerthe passion is, the greater torment he endures; and subjectshimself to a continued real pain, by only wishing ill to is sweet, though i ruel and in
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