This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1714 Excerpt: ...or of Nature: And what's the End of all these Unreasonable Desires, but Loss, Sorrow, and Disappointment? The true Intent of this Fable is to PoScss-us of a just Sense of the Vanity and Folly' of these Craving Appetites. If the Woman could have been Contented with Golden Eggs, she might have kept that Revenue on still; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1714 Excerpt: ...or of Nature: And what's the End of all these Unreasonable Desires, but Loss, Sorrow, and Disappointment? The true Intent of this Fable is to PoScss-us of a just Sense of the Vanity and Folly' of these Craving Appetites. If the Woman could have been Contented with Golden Eggs, she might have kept that Revenue on still; but when Nothing less than the Mine it Jelj would serve her, she lost Hen, Eggs and All. Fa B. 248. An 3pe and her CtCO "BjatSf 'PHere was an Ape that had iwins: She Doted tipon One of them, and did not much Care for T'other. She took a sudden Fright once, and in a Harry whips up her Darling under her Arm, and carries the Other a Pick-a-Pack upon her Shoulders, i n this Haste and Maze, down she comes, and beats out her Favourites Brains against a Stone j but that which fee had at her Back came off Safe and Sound., The Moral Fondlings are commonly Unfortunate. REFLECTION. PARTIALITY in a Parent is commonly Unlucky, if not a little Unnatural, for Fondlings are in danger to be made Fools by the very Error of their Education, and we find it Experimentally that the Children that are least Cocker'd, make the Rest and Wisest Men. 'Tis well to be Tender, but to set the Hart too much upon any Thing, is what we cannot Justify, either in Religion, or in Reason. I was Saying that Partiality was a little Unnatural too. I do not mean a Partiality of Inclination; for we cannot Command our Likings or our Aversions; but I speak of a Partiality that lhews it self in a distinguishing Preference of One to the Other, and therefore what hankering Dispositions soever we may have, that Fondness should not Transport us beyond the Bounds of a discreet Affection: and other Circumstances apart, we should no more be Kinder to One Child than to Another, than we are T...
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