Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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Title: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
Publication: London :: Printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J. Hindmarsh,; 1692.
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Subject terms: Aesop.; Fables.
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The MORAL.

The Philosophers will have Man in a Degree of Excellency to be a Sociable Creature; but these Philosophers are Men themselves then, and Iudges in their Own Case: Now if we may Credit Matter of Fact and Experience, Men are the most Disunited Creatures under the Heavens: 'Tis their De∣light, Study, Practice and Profession to lye Cutting One Anothers Throats, and Destroying their own Kind: Insomuch that Birds, Beasts and Insects, to the very Flies and Pismires, will rise up in Iudgment against Mankind in this Point.