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Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...
The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; On Parables; Orphans (Lyle Kessler play) P. Parable of the broken window; Parable of the drowning man;
The Man and the Lion; The Man with two Mistresses; The Mischievous Dog; The Miser and his Gold; Momus criticizes the creations of the gods; The Moon and her Mother; The Mountain in Labour; The Mouse and the Oyster; The North Wind and the Sun; The Oak and the Reed; The Old Man and Death; The Old Man and his Sons; The Old Man and the Ass; The Old ...
Background: I am writing a WP-article about the subject (still waiting for a book to arrive which contains the "official" translation of the parable [which you can find 100.000-fold on the web - but with all kinds of additions and twists]). 213.169.161.126 11:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
The want of a nayle looseth the shooe, the losse of shooe troubles the horse, the horse indangereth the rider, the rider breaking his ranke molests the company, so farre as to hazard the whole Army". (1629 Thomas Adams (clergyman) , "The Works of Thomas Adams: The Sum of His Sermons, Meditations, And Other Divine And Moral Discourses", p. 714 ...
Then he found an old man, who asked him who he was. He told how he had become lost and offered to enter his service. The old man set him to keep the stove lit, to fetch the firewood from the forest, and to take care of the black horse in the stables. The old man was a magician and the fire was the source of his power, though he did not tell the ...
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"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", without the last line: "And half the ...
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