. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . op, on which the Church of England hassubsisted ever since. Providence, which alwaysmakes use of the most natural means to attainits purpose, has thought fit to establish the purestreligion by this method: the consideration ofwhich may give a proper check to those who arecontinually endeavouring to root out errors bythat very manfigement, which so infallibly fixesand implants all opinions, as well erroneous asorthodox. When an opinion is so violently at-tacked, it raises an attention in the persecutedparty, and give
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . op, on which the Church of England hassubsisted ever since. Providence, which alwaysmakes use of the most natural means to attainits purpose, has thought fit to establish the purestreligion by this method: the consideration ofwhich may give a proper check to those who arecontinually endeavouring to root out errors bythat very manfigement, which so infallibly fixesand implants all opinions, as well erroneous asorthodox. When an opinion is so violently at-tacked, it raises an attention in the persecutedparty, and give^. an alarm to their vanity, bymaking them think that worth defending andkeeping, at the hazard of their lives, which, per-haps, otherwise they would only have admireda while for the sake of its novelty, and after-wards resigned of their own accord. In short,a fierce turbulent opposition, like the northWind, only serves to make a man wrap up hisnotions more closely about him; but we knownot what a kind, warm. Sun-shiny behaviour,rightly applied, would not be able to THE KITE, THE FROG, AND THE MOUSE. JL was once a great emulation betweenthe Frog and the Mouse, which should be mas-ter of the feu, and wars ensued upon it. Butthe crafty Mouse, lurking under the grass inambuscade, made sudden sallies, and oftensurprised the enemy at a disadvantage. TheFrog, excelling in strength, and being more ableto leap abroad and take the field, challengedthe Mouse to single combat. The Mouse ac-cepts the challenge ; and each of them enteredthe lists, armed with a point of a bulrush in-stead of a spear. A Kite, sailing in the air,beheld them afar off; and, while they wereeagerly bent upon each other, and pressing onto the duel, this fatal enemy descended souseupon them, and with her crooked talons carriedoff both the champions. APPLICATION. Nothing so much exposes a mans weak side,and lays him so open to an enemy, as passion FABLE 73 and malice. He whose attention is wholl
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