Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
The Bahar Danush, or Sea of Wisdom, abounds with maxims, apothegms, c., similar to those in the preceding works this was most faithfully translated from the Persian, by Dr. Jonathan Scott, late Persian secretary to his excellency Warren Hastings, published in three vols. 12mo., with notes, Shrewsbury, 1799. This is the most correct version of any Persian work yet offered to the public. The original is by Einaut Ullah. Of these works it may be said, they contain the wisdom of the oriental world; and many of the numerous maxims interspersed through them yield in importance only to those in the sacred writings. The fables attributed to AEsop have been repeatedly published in Greek and Latin, as well as in all the languages of Europe, and are well known. Those of Phaedrus are in general only a metrical version of the fables of AEsop. The compositions of La Fontaine, in French, and those of Mr. Gay, in English, are very valuable.