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Page xxi - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. But as...
Page 55 - ... resolving to seek out some retreat of more security, or to end their unhappy days by doing violence to themselves. With this resolution they found an outlet where a pale had been broken down, and bolting forth upon an adjoining common, had not run far before their course was stopped by that of a gentle brook which glided across the way they intended to take.
Page 84 - Bear came rushing towards them out of a thicket ; upon which one, being a light, nimble fellow, got up into a tree ; the other, falling flat upon his face and holding his breath, lay still while the Bear came up and smelled at him ; but...
Page 36 - True, says the Dog, therefore you have nothing more to do but to follow me. 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 Why...
Page 14 - Unhappy creature that I am ! I am too late convinced, that what I prided myself in has been the cause of my undoing, and what I so much disliked was the only thing that could have saved me.
Page 139 - THE EAGLE, THE CAT, AND THE SOW. AN Eagle had built her nest upon the top branches of an old oak; a Wild Cat inhabited a hole in the middle ; and in the hollow part at the bottom was a Sow with a whole litter of Pigs. A happy neighbourhood, and might long have continued so, had it not been for the wicked insinuations of the designing Cat: for first of all, up she crept to the Eagle, and, Good neighbour...
Page xx - As fables took their birth in the very infancy of learning, they never flourished more than when learning was at its greatest height To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, ' the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns; not to mention La Fontaine, who by this...
Page 269 - The Hare agreed; and away they both started together. But the Hare, by reason of her exceeding swiftness, outran the Tortoise to such a degree, that she made a jest of the matter; and, finding herself a little tired, squatted in a tuft of fern that grew by the way...
Page xxi - To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns : not to mention La Fontaine, who, by this way of writing, is come more into vogue than any other author of our times.