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FABLES. 



APPLICATION. 



THE mischief that bad men meditate to others, 

 commonly, like a judgement, falls upon their own 

 heads; and the punishment of wickedness is so just 

 in itself, that the sufferer, who has made others feel 

 it, cannot, if he think rightly, but confess that he 

 deserves the like inflicted on himself. The har- 

 dened unfeeling heart of a cruel and unjust man, 

 can, however, continue to do a thousand bitter 

 things to others, until he tastes calamity himself, 

 and then only it is that he feels the insupportable 

 uneasiness it occasions. Why should we think 

 others born to hard treatment more than ourselves, 

 or imagine it can be reasonable to do to another 

 what we should think very hard to suffer in our 

 own persons r 



