Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ For Flying without Wings is All one with Working without Means. We see a Thousand Instances in the World, Every jot as Ridiculous as This in the Fable. That is to say of Men that are Made for One Condition, and yet Affect Another. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Every thing in Nature has it’s Appointed Place, and Condition, and there's No putting a Force upon any thing, contrary to the Biass and Intent of it's Instisution. What Bus’ness has a Tortorise among the Clouds? Or why may not the Earth it self as well Covet a Higher Place, as any Creature that's Confin'd to't? ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ It is, in short, a Silly, an Extravagant, and in Truth, so Impious a Fancy, that there can hardly be a Greater Folly then to Wish, or but so much as to Suppose it: But there's an Ambition in Mean Creatures, as well as in Mean Souls. So many Ridiculous Upstarts as we find Promoted in the World, we may Imagine to be so many Tortorises in the Air ”
