 He might have shown that these hunters whose game is man have many sports analogous to our own. As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague, as we...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ... - Page 211774Full view - About this book
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 pages
...As we drown whelps or kittens, they amuse them' selves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand ' round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague, ' as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying, ' they take a man in the midst of his business or ' pleasure, and knock him down... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...own. As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...own. As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cock-pit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Norman Pearson - 1911 - 532 pages
...human suffering is supposed to minister may sink a ship, he suggests, as we drown kittens ; " or stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...own. As we drown whelps or kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...own. As we drown whelps or kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner - 1926 - 128 pages
...analogous to our own. As we drown whelps or kittens, they amuse themselves with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague as we encircle a cock-pit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pages
...own. As we drown whelps and kittens they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure and knock him down with... | |
 | 1902 - 1052 pages
...own. As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves now and then with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cock-pit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with... | |
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