OCR Text |
Show A TALE WITH A MOUAL. Dapsciieliu, King of the Indies, pos-scssed pos-scssed a library that required n hundred Brahmins to keep in order; ni;d a thousand dromedaries to carry the books. A a bo bad no intention, to redd all it contained, he commanded his Brahmins to make ex' tracts from It for bis use, of whatever thef judged most valuable, In every branch" onitcuturc. These doctors immediately undertook to lorm such liu abridgement; and, after twenty years' labor, composed l rout their scv -m collections a small encyclopedia en-cyclopedia cordis ing cf twelve thousand volumes which thirty cames could scarcely curry; tliey bad the honor to present this to the King, but were nstonished to hear hlui i say, "That he would not rend a work that.Wos a load rpr thirty c'ameU." They then reduced their extract to that they might bo carried by Cftcen: afterward by ten; andthen byrpur;0i then by two drowedar!,es-et last.no more bpokiwero left thiri.weri! I.nfficlgrjtj&'lrtitlta iflnle ff ordinary strength. .Dnfof innately; Dal? scbelim bad grown old while bit' library wie abridging, nnd aiilfol'cxpect to live long cnougli to reail to the end thVmaS ttrpicce 6 teaming, The sage ' Wpal, Ills, vizier, thefeforo thns adiessed buns 'Thbngli l imvo had nn Imperfect know ledge of tlio.libraryxof your' ubiime tria-' jesty.tyetl can make kind of nnnlysia of whut It cphlamsvery shortbqt ex trentcly-carefulf you "may-read it frf-a minnfe yet Ifciwiil nUbrir.you" sufflcieiit matter for medttotioirtturiug y5ar whole life"'1 'At' he same lltuei ihe vizier took thqleuf, of paim'.lree, find wrote ortTit, Wilh Ti goli) pcm:i,tliB,foliPwiiig maxim: r ,5'JFirswIn, lite greater part Of tjcifeficfr; there is only tliis jingle worll, JperAaptj la all btory, but. lheFe:.phrse8i 'Thi-y were" Wrnj, (.hey were wretched, and tbey 'died-'', "; ,',-( r- ' - "Second . "Take. pesurq, in .nothing which 1s Hat commendable, audi do everything, every-thing, which you. take, -a, pleasure in. Think nothing but what is; true; awl-do not nttcr;alyot,ibfiik, s u., - ' v'iTIitrd-Ti Q, jy'e kihgsl , subdue yonr passions reign, oyer yonrsejvctj nnd.yOu will colder tho governracntof the-World outy as recreation... , .s yionrth O,. ye, kings!, 0,vye natlonsl listen. ton. tmthyou, can. jicvcr. hear too oftenr ond. jvhicb fioplilsla pretend to dpnb,t, .'Thcre'is.'iiq- happmcaS without virtue,, and no virtue. without, the fear er tlie! godi;'' iidrfrrk Ltgtu&t. ' . |