 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1798 - 612 pages
...and will go any where; I bred him myftlf, and have had him thefe two years ; he is fometimes fkhtifh and playful, and once ran away from me; you will hardly...it, but there were more than fifty people after him, to ftop him, but they were not able to effeft it ; yet he turned back of himfelf, and never flopped... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...any thing, and to go any where; I bred him myself: he is sometimes skittish and playful, and once run away from me ; you will hardly believe it, but there...stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom."* * Church. Leo Africanus informs us, that, at Cairo, Asses were frequently trained up for public exhibitions,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 294 pages
...ready to do any thing, and will go any where ; I bred him myself, and have had him these two years; he is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...it, but there were more than fifty people after him, to stop him, but they were not able to effect it, yet he turned back of himself, and never stopped,... | |
 | Tales - Conduct of life - 1820 - 560 pages
...stubbornness I cannot complain, for he is ready to do any thing, and to go any where. I bred him up myself. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom." SEVENTH YOUTH. I boast of being a Horse: and I think with reason, since my species contributes more... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1821 - 276 pages
...stubbornness I cannot complain, for he is ready to do any thing, and to go any where. I bred him up myself. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom." SEVENTH YOUTH. I boast of being a Horse : and I think •with reason, since my species contributes... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pages
...stubbornness, I cannot complain, for he is ready to do any thing, or to go any where. I bred him myself. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom." There are said to have been no Asses in England in the reign of queen Elizabeth. How soon afterwards... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...stubbornness I cannot complain ; for he is ready to do any thing, and go any where. I bred him myself. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...vain to stop him ; yet he turned back of himself, and he never stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom." The ancients had a great regard for this... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - Readers - 1829 - 172 pages
...myself, and have had him these two years ; he is sometimes skittish and playful, and once run amty from me ; you will hardly believe it, but there were more than jifty people after him, to stop him, but they were not able to effect it, yet he turned back of himself,... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...stubbornness. I cannot complain, for he is ready to do any thing, or to go any where. I bred him myself. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...stopped till he ran his head kindly into my bosom.'" excellent, which has also contributed to his being numbered among timid animals, which it is pretended... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1833 - 438 pages
...cruel ; and as for stubbornness I CMDOC complain, for he is ready to do any thing, or go any where. He is sometimes skittish and playful, and once ran away...turned back of himself, and never stopped till he ran hi* head kindly into my bosom." An evil name should never be applied until it is deserved. A child... | |
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