Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.
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Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.
Author
Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.
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Edinburgh :: printed for Mr. Andrew Symson, and are to be sold by him at the foot of the Horse-Wynd in the Cowgate; and by Mr. Henry Knox in the Lucken-Booths,
M. DCC. [1700]
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L'Estrange, Roger, -- Sir 1616-1704 -- Early works to 1800.
Aesop's fables -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- Early works to 1800.
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"Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41556.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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FAB. CCCCXVIII. Page 394.
That storie of the unruly Horse of the Prince of Orange that killed the Ly∣on with a back blow of his hinder foot upon the Lyons Front, is so well known through all Europe, that We need not insist upon it; Only I shall ad that the Ass in the fable had a better fortune than the Horse in theh istorie, for the Ass became no whit less than himselfe by his victorie over the Boar; But the dreadfull pursuit made by this lyon (tho' he lost his life in the cause) did so stun the spirits of the Horse, that he who was so sprightly before as that he would suffer none to back him, became such a tame jade, that a Child
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might mount him, and he was judged fit for no other imployment, than the drawing of a Cart.
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