Thirty-Six curious histories, fables, and allegories : Taken from the Spectator and Guardian; Peculiarly Adapted to Form young Minds to a Love of Virtue, and an Abhorrence of Vice; viz. Inkle and Yarico. Laetitia and Daphne. Socrates and Physiognomist. Eudoxus and Leontine. Gypsy an Ambassador. Constantia and Theodosius. An Atheistical Author. Herod and Mariamne. Eginhart and Imma. French Renegado, &c. Dervise and K. of Tartary. Drop of Water, a Fable. Two Westminster Scholars. Reduced Citizen. Madam de Villacerfe. Basilius and Alexandrinus. Amazons Common wealth. Chremylus and Plutus. Biton and Clitobus. Rhynsault, unjust Governor Sultan Mahmud and Visier. Bantam Ambass. Letter. Persian Glass Man, a Fable. Fadlallah and Zemroude. Infidel Sultan and Doctor. A Jewish Tradition. Pleasure and Pain, a Fable. Menippus and Jupiter. Persian Sultan. Timoleon and Providence. Androcles & Numidian Lyon French Nobleman. Santon Barsissa and Devil. R- T- and her Maid. Helim the Physician. A Knight made virtuous.

Format:

Book

Standardized Title:

Histories, fables, allegories, and characters, selected from the Spectator and Guardian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allegories--Early works to 1800.

Allegories.

Fables--Early works to 1800.

Fables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],90,[4]p. )

Edition:

The third edition; to which is added a dedication to parents and instructors of youth, ..

Place of Publication:

London : printed by and for R. Whitworth, Stationer and Bookseller, at the Feathers, in Abchurch Lane, and sold at his shop almost facing the Cross, in Manchester, 1752.

Notes:

Also published with the title 'Histories, fables, allegories, and characters, selected from the Spectator and Guardian'.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T188143.

OCLC:

642516542