 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...how cheerful they are in spirits, what enjoyment they have of life, and that if they seem impressed with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it. X.— THE PARROT. CAMPRELL. (THOMAS CAMPRELL was born in Glasgow, July 27, 1777, and died tn Boulogne,... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...it. " That I may not be tedious, I will just give you a short summary of those articles of diet that suit them best, and then retire to make room for... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...only because man gives them peculiar cause for it. Bess, I have said, died young ; Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died at last, I have reason to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1878 - 290 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of life, and that, impressed us they seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it.... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...only because man gives them peculiar cause for it. Bess, I have said, died young ; Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died at last, I have reason to... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 200 pages
...sportsman's amusement in abhorrence ; he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...impressed as they seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is because man gives them peculiar cause for it." QUESTIONS : — 1. What was the chief difference between... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...only because man gives them peculiar cause for it. Bess, I have said, died young ; Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died at last, I have reason to... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 756 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of life ; and that, impressed as the}' seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it. Bess,... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them a peculiar cause for it.54 He was, however, a friend to more than companion animals: I would not enter... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - History - 2003 - 308 pages
..."little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of...only because man gives them peculiar cause for it" (Cowper: Poetry and Prtwe, edited by Brian Spiller [London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968], 388). "The Negro's... | |
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It is no wonder that my intimate acquaintance with these specimens of the kind, has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they... 
