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She could nowise reconcile this with her moral sense. And, indeed, unless these butterflies are created with a side-look to the composition of improving apologues, it is not altogether easy, even for people who have read Hegel and Dr. M'Cosh, to decide intelligibly upon the issue raised.

Another of the Bishop's ways of defending himself was to boast that, in spite of all his interrogations, he has actually excluded only two curates from his diocese: and this boast supplies the reviewer with one of his best apologues. "So the Emperor of Hayti boasted that he had only cut off two persons' heads for disagreeable behaviour at his table.

It has been translated into Italian and published in Paris. The Hitopadesa, a collection of fables and apologues, has been translated into more languages than any book except the Bible. It has found its way all over the civilized world, and is the model of the fables of all countries. The dramas of Kalidasa, the Hindu Shakespeare, contain many episodes borrowed from the great Epic poems.

She could nowise reconcile this with her moral sense. And, indeed, unless these butterflies are created with a side-look to the composition of improving apologues, it is not altogether easy, even for people who have read Hegel and Dr. M'Cosh, to decide intelligibly upon the issue raised.

I'll tell you what I read of them in some ancient apologues, replied Pantagruel. Physis that is to say, Nature at her first burthen begat Beauty and Harmony without carnal copulation, being of herself very fruitful and prolific.

His "Apologues," imitated from Aesop, are unfortunately lost. ix The Court of Edred. All the early chroniclers appear to take a similar view of the character and court of Edred. William of Malmesbury says "The king devoted his life to God, and to St.

Even in his most critical moments, his simplicity would never have imagined the deceptive foundations on which reposes a Crusade for the Right, and as he was not a man to keep his discovery to himself, he proclaimed it loudly, first in articles which were forbidden by the censor, and then in the shape of sarcastic apologues, or little symbolic tales, touched with irony.

Their speeches are not deficient in a suitable exordium, a clear narrative, a well-founded argument, and a pathetic peroration; and usually abound in parables and apologues; which sometimes furnish the main substance of the discourse.

The old Suffet mingled his speech in this way with proverbs and apologues, nodding his head the while to solicit some approval. Hanno, perceiving this, stopped and reflected, swaying himself heavily from one leg to the other.

The Voltairian apologues slipped through sometimes, owing to the inattention of the censor, and in this way Clerambault was marked out to the authorities as a very dangerous man. Those who thought they knew him best were surprised. His adversaries had called him sentimental, and assuredly so he was, but he was aware of it, and because he was French he could laugh at it, and at himself.