 ... 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 - 211 ページRalph Beilby 著 - 1792 - 483 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 ページ
...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, that this evidence almost... | |
 | 1849 - 238 ページ
...ewe, its fleece and lamb; or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat, suspended by the tail with the head touching the floor, would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former." Those must have been the days of Whittington. la the tenth and eleventh centuries, also, cats were... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 ページ
...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... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 ページ
...fleece and lamb, or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat while suspended from the tail, with the head touching the floor, would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. The Domestic Cat is too familiar to require description ; but it has certain peculiarities which must... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 ページ
...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... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - 1853 - 744 ページ
...with her fleece und lamb, or as much wheat as, when poured upon a cat, suspended by its tail, (the head touching the floor,) would form a heap high enough to cover the creature to the tip of its tail." OIU.FR I'ACHYDERMATA. This order is named from the thickness of the... | |
 | 1856 - 422 ページ
...fleece and lamb, or as much wheat as, when poured ou thu cat while suspended from the tail, with the head touching the floor, would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former. The Domestic Cat is too familiar to require description ; but it has certain peculiarities which must... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 724 ページ
...wheat as when poured on the cat, suspended by the tail, (the head touching the floor,) would form г 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 ページ
...ewe, its fleece and lamb, or as much wheat as when poured on the cat, suspended by (lie tail, (the head touching the floor,) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the Inrmer. From hence we discover, besides a picture of the simplicity of the limes, a strong argument... | |
 | Henry Green - 1858 - 170 ページ
...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 former. This last quotation is not only curious, as being an evidence of the simplicity of ancient manners,... | |
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