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... this feeling was , indeed , strenously in- culcated by Mahomet , who , speaking of the horse , says— " Thou shalt be for a man a source of happiness and wealth , -thy back shall be a seat of honour , and thy TO HIS HORSE . 13.
... this feeling was , indeed , strenously in- culcated by Mahomet , who , speaking of the horse , says— " Thou shalt be for a man a source of happiness and wealth , -thy back shall be a seat of honour , and thy TO HIS HORSE . 13.
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... say ) , must I be so un- fortunate as to have thee sold to so many masters , and not be able to keep thee my- self ! I am poor , my gazelle ! You well know , my sweet , that I have brought thee up like my child ; I never beat thee ...
... say ) , must I be so un- fortunate as to have thee sold to so many masters , and not be able to keep thee my- self ! I am poor , my gazelle ! You well know , my sweet , that I have brought thee up like my child ; I never beat thee ...
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... says , " I have seen one of these dogs along the ramparts of a town , leave a smooth and uniform path , and take a worse , in order to lead his master from the edge , How could this dog have been made to conceive that his duty was to ...
... says , " I have seen one of these dogs along the ramparts of a town , leave a smooth and uniform path , and take a worse , in order to lead his master from the edge , How could this dog have been made to conceive that his duty was to ...
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... says he " beyond all comparison , the best dog I ever saw . He was of a surly , unsocial temper , disdaining all flattery , and refused to be caressed ; but his attention to his master will never again be equalled by any of the canine ...
... says he " beyond all comparison , the best dog I ever saw . He was of a surly , unsocial temper , disdaining all flattery , and refused to be caressed ; but his attention to his master will never again be equalled by any of the canine ...
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... it with greater propriety . All that I can farther say , is , that I never felt so grateful to any creature below the sun , as I did to my honest Sirrah that morning . " - JAMES HOGG . CRUELTY TO DOGS . IT has been said , " 78 THE DOG .
... it with greater propriety . All that I can farther say , is , that I never felt so grateful to any creature below the sun , as I did to my honest Sirrah that morning . " - JAMES HOGG . CRUELTY TO DOGS . IT has been said , " 78 THE DOG .
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Page 103 - The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own.
Page 164 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 182 - To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 198 - The eyes of all wait upon thee ; And thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 5 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 199 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Page 52 - A BARKING sound the shepherd hears, A cry as of a dog or fox ; He halts— and searches with his eyes Among the scattered rocks : And now at distance can discern A stirring in a brake of fern; And instantly a dog is seen, Glancing through that covert green. The dog is not of mountain breed ; Its motions, too, are wild and shy ; With something, as the shepherd thinks, Unusual in its...
Page 194 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of Heaven and Earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts Continual climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
Page 199 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Page 191 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility), the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.