 | 1849 - 700 страници
...Second. But many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost as sacred as that of u human bcing, was considered as a mere nuisance. Oliver St. John told the Long Parliament that Slraft'ord... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 страници
...British Museum. J Evelyn's Diary, June 2, 1675. rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...Long Parliament that Strafford was to be regarded, riot as a stag or a hare, to whom some law was to be given, but as a fox, who was to be snared by any... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 страници
...Second. But many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...nuisance. Oliver St. John told the Long Parliament that Strafibrd was to be regarded, not as a stag or a hare, to whom some law was to be given, but as a fox,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 страници
...Second. But many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...human being, was considered as a mere nuisance. Oliver Saint John told the Long Parliament that Straffbrd was to be regarded, not as a stag or a hare, to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 страници
...Second. But many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...human being, was considered as a mere nuisance. Oliver Saint John told the Long Parliament that Strafford was to be regarded, not as a stag or a hare, to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 страници
...Second. But many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...human being, was considered as a mere nuisance. Oliver Saint John told the Long Parliament that Strafford was to be regarded, not as a stag or a hare, to... | |
 | John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 страници
...scarcely any inclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands. The fox, whose life is in many counties held almost as...a human being, was considered as a mere nuisance. The wild bull with his white mane was still to be found wandering in a few of the southern forests.... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 страници
...Charles II. ; but many breeds now extinct, or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost...a human being, was considered as a mere nuisance. There were not seldom great massacrees of foxes, to which the peasantry thronged with all the dogs... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1854 - 192 страници
...Charles II. ; but many breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is, in many counties, held almost as sacred as that of a human being, was then considered as a mere nuisance. The red deer were then as common in Gloucestershire and Hampshire... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 страници
...breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common. The fox, whose life is now, in many counties, held almost as sacred as that of a human being, was then, considered as a mere nuisance. Oliver Saint John told the Long Parliament that Strafford was... | |
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Strafford was to be regarded, not as a stag or a hare, to whom some law was to be given, but as a fox, who was to be snared by any means, and knocked on the head without pity. This illustration would be by no means... 
