. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . nc3 to declare, inpublic, tliat virtue was not a fine thing. But still, among the idle, sauntering young fel-lows of the a^e, who liave leisure as well to culti-vate and improve the faculties of the mind, as todress and embellish the body, how many are therewho spend tlieir dajs in raking after new scenesof debauchery, in comparison of those few whoknow how to relish more reasonable entertain-ments! Honest, undesigning good sense is so un-fashional)le, that he must be a bold man who, atthis tune of day, attempts to
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . nc3 to declare, inpublic, tliat virtue was not a fine thing. But still, among the idle, sauntering young fel-lows of the a^e, who liave leisure as well to culti-vate and improve the faculties of the mind, as todress and embellish the body, how many are therewho spend tlieir dajs in raking after new scenesof debauchery, in comparison of those few whoknow how to relish more reasonable entertain-ments! Honest, undesigning good sense is so un-fashional)le, that he must be a bold man who, atthis tune of day, attempts to bring it into esteem. How disappointed is the youth who, in the midstof his amorous pursuits, endeavouring to plunderan outside of bloom and beauty, finds a treasureof unpenetrable virtue concealed within! Andwhy may it not be said, how delighted are the fairsex when, from among a crowd of empty, frolic,conceited admirers, they find out, and distinguishwith their good opinion, a man of sense, with aplain, uimfiected person, which, at first sight, theydid not like! fABLE THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. One hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb hap-pened to come, just at the same time, to quenchtheir thirst in the stream of a clear, silver brookthat ran tumbling down the side of a rockymountain. The Wolf stood upon the higherground, and the Lamb at some distance fromhim down the current. However the Wolf,having a mind to pick a ([uarrel with him,asked him, what he meant by disturbing thewater, and making it so muddy that he couldnot drink ? and, at the same time, demandedsatisfaction. The Lamb, frightened at thisthreatening charge, told him, in a tone as mildas possible, that, with humble submission, hecould not conceive how that could be; sincethe water which he drank, ran down from theWolf to him, and therefore it could not be dis-turbed so far up the stream. Be that as itwill, replies the Wolf, you are a rascal, andI have been tcld that yt)u treated me with ill J&, 4 FABLE II. langu
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