. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . s, pretend a dislike to everything which they cannot obtain. There is astrange propensity in mankind to this temper,and there are numbers of grumbling malcon-tents in every different faculty and sect in discarded statesman, consideiing the cor- FABLK XCIII. 193 ruption of Uie times, would not have any handin the administration of affairs for all the country squire damns a court life, andwould not go cringing and creeping to a draw-ing-room for the best place the king has at hisdisposal. A joung fe
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . s, pretend a dislike to everything which they cannot obtain. There is astrange propensity in mankind to this temper,and there are numbers of grumbling malcon-tents in every different faculty and sect in discarded statesman, consideiing the cor- FABLK XCIII. 193 ruption of Uie times, would not have any handin the administration of affairs for all the country squire damns a court life, andwould not go cringing and creeping to a draw-ing-room for the best place the king has at hisdisposal. A joung fellow, being asked how heliked a celebrated beauty, by whom all theworld knew he was despised, answered, she hada stinking breath. How insufferable is thepride of this poor creature, man ! who wouldstoop to tlic basest vilest actions, rather thanbe thought not able to do any thing. For whatis more base and vile than lying? And whendo we lie more notoriously than when v/e dis-parage and find fault with a thing, for no otherreason but because it is out of our power. ■Si^^S^,. 194 FABLE XCIV. .>^;:-.^&
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