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Title
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years. By the Authors and Orators of All Countries. Vol. III
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Henry Coppée
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Creator
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Coppée, Henry
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:19:30Z
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1998-05
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1895
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:19:30Z
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Date Issued
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1895
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Abstract
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Included in this tome is a very short section Fables from the Arabian of Lokman the Sage, translated by the editor (440-1). Four good fables are presented. The first pits a lion against two bulls; in most other versions there are three or four bulls. The second has the lion inviting the bull to dinner for lamb, where the bull sees an immense cooking-pot. The third tells well the story of the lamenting pig, though all the animals are on the back of a beast of burden and not, as usual, in a wagon. There is a strange moral to this fable: Those who are overwhelmed by the crimes and misdemeanors they have committed should know the fatal destiny reserved for them. What crime did the pig commit? The fourth has a bramble, when fed and cared for, taking over a whole garden. The congeries represented by a book like this has to strike most of us as unusual. The next few things after Lokman are a selection from Oedipus at Colonus, some poetry, an engraving, and Chemical Combination, Decomposition and Affinity. Wow!
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Identifier
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2958 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Carson & Simpson
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Philadelphia, PA
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Subject
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PN6013.C7 1895
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Lokman
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole