The North British Review, Том 7W.P. Kennedy, 1847 |
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... wild animals are sagacious , swift of foot , keen - scented , persevering , and , as the event has shown , capable of strong and enduring attachment to mankind . The result of their own good qualities , when acted on by our kindness ...
... wild animals are sagacious , swift of foot , keen - scented , persevering , and , as the event has shown , capable of strong and enduring attachment to mankind . The result of their own good qualities , when acted on by our kindness ...
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... wild state , live by choice in the vicinity of human habitations , or submit themselves most cheerfully to man's dominion . Neither is it the nature , considered by itself alone , of any creature's attributes , which de- termines its ...
... wild state , live by choice in the vicinity of human habitations , or submit themselves most cheerfully to man's dominion . Neither is it the nature , considered by itself alone , of any creature's attributes , which de- termines its ...
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... wild and melancholy look , is still superior . in instinct to all others , -that he has a decided character in which educa- tion has no share , that he is the only kind born as it were already trained that , guided by natural powers ...
... wild and melancholy look , is still superior . in instinct to all others , -that he has a decided character in which educa- tion has no share , that he is the only kind born as it were already trained that , guided by natural powers ...
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... wild species of the Old and New World are deemed distinct by the majority of natura- lists , and as each of those great divisions of the globe gives us more than a single wolf , we start in this way with a somewhat complex paternity ...
... wild species of the Old and New World are deemed distinct by the majority of natura- lists , and as each of those great divisions of the globe gives us more than a single wolf , we start in this way with a somewhat complex paternity ...
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... wild wolves of the country , except that he possessed the power of barking . A black wolf - dog , sent from Canada to the late Earl of Durham , seemed to combine the characters of the wolf and the original Newfoundland dog . The Hare ...
... wild wolves of the country , except that he possessed the power of barking . A black wolf - dog , sent from Canada to the late Earl of Durham , seemed to combine the characters of the wolf and the original Newfoundland dog . The Hare ...
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