| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England.' — pp. 119, 120. • June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it... | |
| 1828 - 588 pages
...pleased, and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...reasonable treatment, be made the sources of abundant advantage to us. The simple Hindoo shews here a better taste and judgment than half the otter-hunting... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England.' ' June 28. — The river continues a noble one, and the country bordering on it is now of a fertility... | |
| Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...shows here a better taste and judgment than half the otter hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England. ' June 28. — The river takes a remarkable twist,... | |
| 1833 - 814 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...otter-hunting and badger-baiting gentry of England. — HEBER'S Journal^ • _ LONDON JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 445, (WEST) STRAND. Sold !)>• all Booksellers... | |
| 1833 - 310 pages
...pleased and interested with the sight, It has always been a fancy of mine, that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but...sources of abundant amusement and advantage to us. The simpfc Hindoo shows here a better taste and judgment than half the otter-hunting and badger-baiting... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 682 pages
...with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and prosecute to death, for no cause but the gratification of our...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England." (Bishop Heber.) [For information on the habits of the otter, wild in Britain, see p. 507, 508. 538.... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 pages
...with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and prosecute to death, for no cause but the gratification of our...otter-hunting and badgerbaiting gentry of England." (Bishop Heber.) [For information on the habits of the otter, wild in Britain, see p. 507, 508. 538.... | |
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