Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784. Together with a Memoir and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick
Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784. Together with a Memoir and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick
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. 1820 Excerpt: ...Nothing is more impertinent than for people to be giving their opinion and advice in cases, in which, were they to be their own, themselves would be as much at a loss what to do. But so great an itch have most men to be directors in the affairs of others, either to shew the superiority of their understanding, or their ...
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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. 1820 Excerpt: ...Nothing is more impertinent than for people to be giving their opinion and advice in cases, in which, were they to be their own, themselves would be as much at a loss what to do. But so great an itch have most men to be directors in the affairs of others, either to shew the superiority of their understanding, or their own security and exemption from the ills they would have removed, that they forwardly and conceitedly obtrude their counsel, even at the hazard of their own safety and reputation. THE SPIDER AND THE SILKWORM. How vainly we promise ourselves, that our flimsy productions will be rewarded with immortal honour! A Spider, busied in spreading his web from one side of a room to the other, was asked by an industrious Silkworm, to what end he spent so much time and labour, in making such a number of lines and circles? The Spider angrily replied, " Do not disturb me, thou ignorant thing: I transmit my ingenuity to posterity, and fame is the object of my wishes." Just as he had spoken, a chambermaid, coming into the room to feed her Silkworms, saw the Spider at his work; and with one stroke of her broom, swept him away, and destroyed at once his labours and his hope of fame. REFLECTION. He that is employed in works of use, less generally advantages himself or others; while he who toils alone for fame, must often expect to lose his labour. THE HURON AND THE FRENCHMAN. An airy Frenchman happened to meet a Huron upon the Mississippi, as he went with his bow and arrow to seek provision for his family. Says Monsieur to the Savage, " You have a very toilsome life of it, who, when other people sit by the fire-side, enjoying the benefit of good food and good company, are obliged to traverse the woods in the midst of snow and storms to preserve a w...
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