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worthy and fufceptible of admonition. Expofe the beaſts whoſe qualities you ſee them putting on, where you have no mind to engage with

their perfons. The poſſibility of their applying this is very obvious. The Egyptians faw it ſo clearly, that they made the pictures of animals explain their minds to one another inſtead of

writing ; and, indeed, it is hardly to be miſſed , fince Æfop took them out of their mute condi

tion, and taught them to ſpeak for themſelves with relation to the actions of mankind .'

My guide had thus concluded, and I was pro miſing to write down what was ſhewn me for the ſervice of the world, when I was awakened by a zealous old ſervant of mine, who brought me the Examiner, and told me with looks full of con

cern, he was afraid I was in it again. d Here ends Dr. Parnell's paper.

N° 57. Saturday, May 16, 1713. BY STEELE.

Quàm multa injuſta ac prava fiunt moribus ! TER. Heaut. Act. iv. Sc. 6.

How many unjuſt and wrong things are authorized by cuſtom !

It is of no ſmall concern to me, that the in

tereſts of virtue are ſupplanted by common cuf Thus tom and regard for indifferent things. abfurd and

mode and faſhion defend the moſt 8