 ... the seller was to forfeit to the buyer the third part of its value. If any one stole or killed the cat that guarded the prince's granary, he was to forfeit a milch ewe, its fleece and lamb; or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat suspended by...  A General History of Quadrupeds - Page 211by Ralph Beilby - 1792 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Pennant - Animals - 1776 - 530 pages
...milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as when poured on the cat fufpended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former*. This laft quotation is not only curious, as being an evidence of the fimplicity of ancient manners,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...amileh ewe, its fleece and lamb; oras much wheat as wh«n poureii on the u: fulpcndcd by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. This bft quotation is not only curious,, as being an evidence of the fimplieity of ancient manners,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as when poured on the cat fufpended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. This lait quotation is not only curious, as being an evidence of the (implicit/ fimplicity of ancient... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...milch ewe, its fleece and Jamb; or as much wheat as when poured on the cat fufpended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. This laft quotation is not only carious, as being an evidence of the fimplicity of ancient manners,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 446 pages
...milch-ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as, when poured on a cat fufpended by its tail (the head touching the floor), would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. This lail quotation is not only curious, as being an evidence of the fimplicity of ancient manners,... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...to forfeit a milch ewe, her fleece, and Iamb, or as much wheat as, when poured on the Cat, suspended by its tail, (its head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the tail. — From these circumstances we may conclude, that Cats were not originally natives of these... | |
 | 1814 - 984 pages
...lamb, or as much wheat as, when poured OB the cat, suspended by its tail, (its head touchcc 3 ing ing the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the tail. — From these circumstances we may conclude, that cats were not originally natives of these... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 498 pages
...milch ewe, its fleece and lamb, or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat, suspended by the tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. From hence we discover, besides a picture of the simplicity of the times, a strong argument that cats were not naturally... | |
 | 1829 - 612 pages
...either a milch ewe, her fleece, and lamb, or as much wheat, as \vhen ponred on the cat, suspended by her tail (its head touching the floor), would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of its tail. ON A FUGITIVE DANCING MASTER. His time was short, his touch was neat, His movements have... | |
 | 1839 - 642 pages
...milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as when poured on the cat suspended by its tail (the head touching the floor), would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the tail.* Pennant, who quotes these laws in his British Zoology (1777), observes justly, that this evidence... | |
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