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  • Nay, one says plainly, [327] that "but for the church, you are no more bound to believe the Scripture than AEsop's Fables."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • His first childish experiment occurred about that time, due to his being greatly impressed by the story of the “Fox and the Pitcher” in AEsop's Fables.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • In addition to this, he was fortunate enough to get hold of AEsop's Fables, Pilgrim's Progress, and the lives of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Clay.

    The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913

  • He's so proud of you he is all swelled up like the toad in AEsop's Fables.

    Freckles 1904

  • Under these circumstances they would be like the fox in AEsop's fable who had lost his own tail.

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

  • It has the intrinsic fundamental value of one of AEsop's Fables.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • It has the intrinsic fundamental value of one of AEsop's Fables.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • And now, will you maintain that it is good for Tommy, tear-stained, ink-bespattered little brat, to be given AEsop's Fables, Ovid's

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • He's so proud of you he is all swelled up like the toad in AEsop's Fables.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Thus he read and reread AEsop's Fables, learning to tell stories with a point and to argue by parables; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim's Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems's Life of Washington.

    Abraham Lincoln : an essay 1891

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