He saw in man a talking, absurd, obstinate, proud, angry animal, and clothed these abstractions with wings, or a beak, or tail, or claws, or long ears, as they appeared embodied in these hieroglyphics in the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural... Godey's Lady's Book - Page 180edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...unexpected manner. — In this sense ALsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural history. He makes an ass bray wisdom, and a frog croak humanity. The store of moral truth, and the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 pages
...-^^^g^í^MÍWM^ 1 ^Щ(Ш®«^(*^о« • ;^йа^йшй|Ш1' a^^ípí¿i^ ^Щ№^гт_ KTtEisl; ЯП? sense. He saw in man a talking, absurd, obstinate,...the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural history. He makes an ass bray wisdom, and a frog croak humanity. The store of moral truth, and the... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense JEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...clothed these abstractions with wings, or a beak, or a tail, or long ears, or claws, as they appeared embodied in the brute creation. His moral philosophy... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...unexpected manner. — In this sense ^Esop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...as any objects of sense. He saw in man a talking, absurJ, obstinate, proud, angry animal ; and clothed these abstractions with wings, or a beak, or tail,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense jEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural history. He makes an ass bray wisdom, and a frog croak humanity. The store of moral truth, and the... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense jEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...another species. Vice and virtue were to him as plain as anv objects of sense. He saw in man a talking, absurd, obstinate, proud, angry animal, and clothed... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense jEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...to him as plain as any objects of sense. He saw in map ft talking, absurd, obstinate, proud, angry animal, and IcJotTiecF these^ abstractions with Wings,... | |
| 1873 - 740 pages
...Hazlitt has put this very powerfully in commenting on vEsop's humor, saying of him : " Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...weaknesses and errors transferred to another species He saw in man a talking, absurd, obstinate, proud, angry animal, and clothed these abstractions with... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense JEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural history. He makes an ass bray wisdom, and a frog croak humanity. The store of moral truth, and the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1889 - 364 pages
...unexpected manner. In this sense jEsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived. Ape and slave, he looked askance at human nature, and beheld its...the brute creation. His moral philosophy is natural history. He makes an ass bray wisdom, and a frog croak humanity. The store of moral truth, and the... | |
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