The fables of Æsop; with instructive applications, illustr. by H. Weir1859 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able Æsop agreeable APPLICATION.-This Fable APPLICATION.-Though asked bad company bear beasts beauty behaviour better bramble city of Westminster cock consider creature danger death deserve desire eagle endeavour enemy escape Esop esteem expose favour fear fell fellow fool forbear fortune frog give happened happy head heart honest honour idle innocent intended JACKDAW Jupiter justice killed the poor kind kite labour least liberty lion live look mankind manner master Maximus Planudes mind misfortunes mouse nature neighbours never obliged observed occasion ourselves passion person piece Pisistratus pleasure poor pray proper reason replied resolved revenge Reynard ridiculous RINGDOVE SATYR says scarce scruple secure sense silly slavery STAG stept stork stupidity suffer sure temper thing thought tion took tortoise true uncon virtue whole wicked wolf wretch Xanthus young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 70 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Seite 206 - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Seite 206 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 164 - While extremists may find some fault with the moderation of our platform, they should recollect that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift.
Seite 153 - O my Sons, behold the power of unity ! for if you, in like manner, would but keep yourselves strictly conjoined in the bonds of friendship, It would not be in the power of any mortal to hurt you ; but when once the ties of brotherly affection are dissolved, how soon do you fall to pieces, and are liable to be violated by every injurious hand that assaults you 1
Seite 58 - ... by consorting with the great and the powerful. People of equal conditions may float down the current of life, without hurting each other, but it is a point of some difficulty to steer one's course in the company of the great, so as to escape without a bulge. One would not choose to have one's little country-box situated in the neighbourhood of a very great man; for whether I ignorantly trespass upon him, or he knowingly encroaches upon me, I only am like to be the sufferer. I can neither entertain,...
Seite 54 - Frog, leaping out of the lake, and taking the advantage of a rising ground, made a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, that he was an able physician, and for curing all manner of distempers, would turn his back to no person living. This discourse, uttered in a parcel of hard cramp words, which nobody understood, made the beasts admire his learning, and give credit to every thing he said.
Seite 85 - ... a direct affront to her. Therefore she ran immediately to her father, and, with a great deal of aggravation, complained of her brother, particularly for having acted so effeminate a part as to look in a glass, and meddle with things which belong to women only.
Seite 30 - Now, as they were jogging on together, the Wolf spied a crease in the Dog's neck, and, having a strange curiosity, could not forbear asking him what it meant. "Pugh! nothing," says the Dog. " Nay, but pray " — says the Wolf.
Seite 145 - But I charge you not to let it go out of your own occupation : for if I have any treasure besides, it lies buried somewhere in the ground, within a foot of the surface.