 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 páginas
...circumitance ; they frequently fuftain real loffes, by their inattention to thofe affairs in which they ;>rc immediately concerned. A Country Maid was walking...deliberately •with a Pail of Milk u-pon her head, when fhe fell into the following train of reflections. The money for which I fhall fell this milk, will... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Aesop - 1765 - 400 páginas
...improvements of their condition; they frequently fuftain real lofies, by their inattention to thofe affairs in which they are immediately concerned. A...deliberately with a Pail of Milk upon her head, when ibe fell into the following train of reflections. The money, for which I fhall fell this Milk, will... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - 1805 - 260 páginas
...condition.; they frequently fuftain real lofles, by their inattention to thofe affairs in which they were immediately concerned. A Country Maid was walking...deliberately with a Pail of Milk upon her head, when fhe fell into -the following train of refle&ions : The Money for -•which I fhall fell this Milk,... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1820 - 388 páginas
...and with it all her imaginary happiness. REFLECTION. When men suffer their imagination to amuse them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements...those affairs in which they are immediately concerned, THE BEE AND THE FLY. A BEE, observing a Fly frisking about her hive, asked him, in a very passionate... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1820 - 384 páginas
...and with it all her imaginary happiness. REFLECTION. When men suffer their imagination to amuse them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements...their condition, they frequently sustain real losses, hy their inattention to those affairs in which they are immediately concerned. SELECT FABLES. 39 THE... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1894 - 1204 páginas
...acquaintance with the meaning of one single big word: "When men suffer their imaginations to mislead them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements...their inattention to those affairs in which they are presently concerned." Perhaps the solemn measured mode of reading then taught, together with the sort... | |
 | 1874 - 736 páginas
...improvements of their condition, they frequently fuftain real lofles, by their inattention to thofe affairs in which they are immediately concerned. A...deliberately with a pail of milk upon her head, when flic fell into the following train of reflections : The money for which I fhall fell this milk will... | |
 | 1875 - 797 páginas
...improvements of their condition, they frequently fuftain real loffes, by their inattention to thofe affairs in which they are immediately concerned. A...deliberately with a pail of milk upon her head, when me fell into the following train of reflections : The money for which I fhall fell this milk will enable... | |
 | Illinois. Department of Agriculture - 1881 - 966 páginas
...between the picture and the story. It ran thus: "When men suffer their imagination to amuse them with the distant and uncertain improvements of their condition,...affairs in which they are immediately concerned." After looking at the picture they probably skipped the moral to get to the story, and thought it meant... | |
 | 1896 - 1178 páginas
...acquaintance with tho meaning of one single big word: "When men sutler their imaginations to mislead them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements...sustain real losses by their inattention to those all'airs in which they are presently concerned." Perhaps the solemn measured mode of reading then taught,... | |
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WHEN men suffer their imagination to amuse thom, with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements of their condition, they frequently sustain real losses, by their inattention to those affairs in which they are immediately concerned. 
