The Book of Cats: A Chit-chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies, Legendary, Lyrical, Medical, Mirthful and Miscellaneous |
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Page 36
... domestic , and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more , and which we can- not drive away ; for we pay no respect to those , who , being fond of all beasts , keep Cats for amuse- ment ...
... domestic , and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more , and which we can- not drive away ; for we pay no respect to those , who , being fond of all beasts , keep Cats for amuse- ment ...
Page 37
... as follows , and is not only ignorant of what he talks about , but steals Buffon's absurd prejudices , and passes them off as his own . In his opinion the cat “ is a useful but deceitful domestic The Book of Cats . 37.
... as follows , and is not only ignorant of what he talks about , but steals Buffon's absurd prejudices , and passes them off as his own . In his opinion the cat “ is a useful but deceitful domestic The Book of Cats . 37.
Page 38
... domestic . Although when young it is playful and gay , it pos- sesses at the same time an innate malice and perverse disposition , which increases as it grows up , and which education learns it to conceal , but never to subdue ...
... domestic . Although when young it is playful and gay , it pos- sesses at the same time an innate malice and perverse disposition , which increases as it grows up , and which education learns it to conceal , but never to subdue ...
Page 59
... domestic Pussy , which occurs in an old heraldic book , John Bossewell's " Workes of Armorie , " published in 1597 : — " The field is of the Saphire , on a chief Pearle , a Masion Cruieves . This beaste is called a ' Masion , ' for that ...
... domestic Pussy , which occurs in an old heraldic book , John Bossewell's " Workes of Armorie , " published in 1597 : — " The field is of the Saphire , on a chief Pearle , a Masion Cruieves . This beaste is called a ' Masion , ' for that ...
Page 92
... domestic Cat's origin with those who have so ably treated the subject in books long since written . To tell the truth , I was not myself very much inte- rested about the matter when I began to read the 92 The Book of Cats .
... domestic Cat's origin with those who have so ably treated the subject in books long since written . To tell the truth , I was not myself very much inte- rested about the matter when I began to read the 92 The Book of Cats .
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Page 258 - Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
Page 259 - Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize ; Nor all that glisters gold.
Page 86 - Whittington and his Cat, and that, in order to it, there had been got together a great quantity of mice ; but Mr. Rich, the proprietor of the playhouse, very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the cat to kill them all...