Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ A Man that has Forfeited his Honour and his Conscience, seems to be much in the Condition of the Fox here that had lost his Tayle, and takes as much pains too, to persuade All his Companions to follow his Fashton. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Every Man's Present Condition has somewhat to be Sayd for’t: If it be Uneasy, the Skill will be, either how to Mend it, or how to Beare it: But then there must be no Clashing with the Methods, the Decrees, and the Laws of Nature. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ In cafe of the Worst, it is some sort of Ease to have Company in our Misfortunes. It puts a Body our of Countenance to be in a Fashion by Himself, and therefore the Fox did well to Try if he could bring his Fellow Foxes to put themselves into His Mode. When we have Carry'd a Point as far as it will go, and can make no more on't, 'tis a Stroke of Art and Philosophy, to look as if we did not so much as With for a Thing that is not to be Had. ”
