Do you like old stuff? 1700s?

[PsychoCid]

My reading for the day. Aesop, or Esop's fables are just as relevant in my 30s as in my 3's. Also, just as relevant in the 2000s as 300 years ago.

Snagged this puppy on eBay for short coin. It's already falling apart in my hands but I'm darned excited to read it even once.

[PsychoCid]

THE fables of Efop have always been efteemed the beft leffons for youth, as being well adapted to convey the moft ufeful Maxim's, in a very agreeable manner. Accordingly, many writers, both I'm verfe and profe, have endeavored to clothe them an English drefs. It would ill become the author of this work to animadvert upon their labour : but he thinks it may be faid with truth, and he hopes with modefty, that nothing of this kind, which had been publifhed in profe, can juftly discourage him from the prefent undertaking.

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Goodness, it feels good to speak English above a 4th grade level.

[PsychoCid]

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[dabbler]

THE fables of Efop have always been efteemed the beft leffons for youth, as being well adapted to convey the moft ufeful Maxim's, in a very agreeable manner. Accordingly, many writers, both I'm verfe and profe, have endeavored to clothe them an English drefs. It would ill become the author of this work to animadvert upon their labour : but he thinks it may be faid with truth, and he hopes with modefty, that nothing of this kind, which had been publifhed in profe, can juftly discourage him from the prefent undertaking.

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Goodness, it feels good to speak English above a 4th grade level.

Careful Psycho. While "animadvert" is not used much these days, that is well above 4th grade vocabulary.

Actually, the English language has so many idiosyncrasies, skill in using it at any level is an achievement. Just recognizing that what appear to be f's are in fact s'es (why would they do that?) makes the whole thing quite readable.

Oh yeah, and we don't really speak English anyway, we speak American... which has it's own issues.

[zisme]

that's pretty cool! how would one go about preserving something like that? hermetically sealed case?

[mickey]

As Winston Churchill once said, we and the English are "one people divided by a common language."

[zisme]

[Just recognizing that what appear to be f's are in fact s'es (why would they do that?) makes the whole thing quite readable.

the 's' that looks like an 'f' is called a "Medial S", and was used to denote a long S sound (at the beginning or middle of word), while the more familiar lower case s was used for the short S sound (at the end of a word). It went the way of the dinosaur thanks to the printing press - easier for the printers to just have one character for the letter

[uwmcscott]

I think I still have a copy of Aesop's fables from when I was a kid...but i'm not quite that old as your copy

When I went back to school last fall, had to buy "textbooks". And some of them were actually bound devices made from paper - what a concept. It really took me a while to get back into the mode of reading large amounts of text for learning purposes - rather than jumping around on the internet for the pieces and parts that I need now. I do read fiction or other books for pleasure, but i think we could all learn a lot about just the process of patience required to read carefully.

[aullucci]

Nice score man. I love old books.

We had a single volume little kid version of City Mouse and Country Mouse that I read my girls a thousand times. I also like The Cock and the Fox, but just for the articles...

[mozz]

Have any old shipping ledgers from 59-60, possibly says Gibson on it?

[dabbler]

[Just recognizing that what appear to be f's are in fact s'es (why would they do that?) makes the whole thing quite readable.

the 's' that looks like an 'f' is called a "Medial S", and was used to denote a long S sound (at the beginning or middle of word), while the more familiar lower case s was used for the short S sound (at the end of a word). It went the way of the dinosaur thanks to the printing press - easier for the printers to just have one character for the letter

Thanks for the context! I did not know that!

[PsychoCid]

that's pretty cool! how would one go about preserving something like that? hermetically sealed case?

I suppose, or at least just keep it away from wind and water. It was a $28 splurge for me, and as [mention]uwmcscott[/mention] mentioned it's quite a different experience than the internet era!

If it lasts a few months that's fine by me, but I suspect it'll hold up a while since it's lasted this long. It's no trailer queen, but torn and coffee stained anyway ... maybe 300 year old coffee.