Aesop's fables English and Latin : every one whereof is divided into its distinct periods, marked with figures : so that little children being used to write and translate them may not only more exactly understand all the rules of grammar but also learn to imitate the right composition of words and the proper forms of speech belonging to both languages / by Charles Hoole.
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Aesop's fables English and Latin : every one whereof is divided into its distinct periods, marked with figures : so that little children being used to write and translate them may not only more exactly understand all the rules of grammar but also learn to imitate the right composition of words and the proper forms of speech belonging to both languages / by Charles Hoole.
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London :: Printed by R.E. for the Company of Stationers,
1700.
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"Aesop's fables English and Latin : every one whereof is divided into its distinct periods, marked with figures : so that little children being used to write and translate them may not only more exactly understand all the rules of grammar but also learn to imitate the right composition of words and the proper forms of speech belonging to both languages / by Charles Hoole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26506.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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44. Of the Fox, and the Crocodile.
1. THE Fox and the Crocodile strove about their nobility.
2. When the Crocodile alledged many things for himself, and
vaunted himself beyond measure, touching the splendour of his Ance∣stors;
the Fox smiling, said:
3. Oh friend, although thou hadst never said this, it is clearly mani∣fest
by thy skin, that thou hadst been deprived of the splendour of thy
ancestors, now these many years.
Mor. This fable signifieth, that the matter it self doth most of all
confute lying persons.
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