 ... round them pretend that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to such pre-eminence we know not; he is seldom the biggest or the swiftest,...  The Scots Magazine - Page 4731758Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1759 - 516 pages
...fomething of contrivance and policy licy among thefe mifchievous beings ; and thofe that hover more clolely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rert, and iecms to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What is it that intrtles him to... | |
 | History - 1764 - 524 pages
...tholê mifchievons beings ; and (bofe that hover more clofely round them, pretend, that there il il every herd, one that gives directions to the reft,...more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What 373 to have any more to do with their language, than we have with their religion. All oar bufmefs is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 586 pages
...vultures R 4 may may be fed. Others think they have obferved fomething of contrivance and policy among thefe mifchievous beings ; and thofe that hover more...more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to fuch pre-eminence we know not ; he is feldom the biggeft or the fwifteft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 596 pages
...vultures R 4 may may be fed. Others think they have obferved fomething of contrivance and policy among thefe mifchievous beings ; and thofe that hover more...pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives direftions to the reft, and feems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings ; and those that hover more closely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...sometiling of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings ; and those that tiover more closely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings ; and those that hover more closely round them pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings; and those that hover more closely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings ; and those that hover more closely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings ; and those that hover more closely round them, pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to... | |
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