10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTAMEABLENESS»
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untameableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
untameableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Habit and Intelligence in Their Connexion with the Laws of ...
This subject is systematically misunderstood by \Vestern Europeans, who often
appear to think that self-assertion and untameableness of disposition are the best
basis for the political virtues. It may be true that the greater is the difliculty of ...
2
The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the ...
In an article on thylacines at New York Zoo entitled 'Too stupid to tame', the
thylacine is described as 'one of the most stupidest of animals; its lack of
intelligence is the cause of its untameableness' (M, 1916). As Ritvo indicates, the
relationship ...
3
Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England
... and she made it appear pretty clearly, that the allusion in Scripture to the
strength and untameableness of the unicorn, are much more applicable to the
rhinoceros than to any species of antelope, all of which are remarkably deficient
232 ...
Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), 1830
4
Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, Late the Allan, Formerly ...
9—12, (untameableness) Psalm xxii. 21. (here two are meant, the word being in
the Dual. Bochart. 957. — Ps. xxix. 6. (activity) — Ps. xcii. 10, (one-horned). — Isa
. xxxiv. 7, (Meemim is here translated in Sept. aoj»ai crassi, ingentes, thick, ...
George Townshend Fox, 1827
5
A history of the earth and animated nature
398 and n. ; period of gestation, ib. ; size, colour, and disposition, ib.; antipathy to
the dog, 390; their untameableness, ib., 400; their generation, 400. 401 ; strength,
401 ; suspiciousness, ib. ; how hunted, ib., 402; how extirpated from England, ...
6
A compleat body of speculative and practical divinity: ...
The Untameableness of the Tongue must be understood in alimited Sense, to
denote the great Ditliculty of it ; that the Thing is possible, the same Apostle
seems to intimate, when in the Beginning of his Discourse, he tells us, that '1 any
Man ...
The anicorn of HOLY war-r has all the properties of the Rbinoceror, rage,
untameableness, great swistness, and great strength. Various animals were
styled monocero: and unicarnis, probably from the accident of' having lost one os
their horns ...
8
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present
... of untameableness which had formerly characterized it. He attended the
singing-school regularly, and often escorted home some of the fair ones who
brightened these evening gatherings. He never indeed went so far as to
volunteer a call, ...
Not only was his dress more cared for, but his way of living was essentially
civilized ; and his manner lost that tinge of untameableness which had formerly
characterized it. He attended the singing-school regularly, and often escorted
home ...
Caroline Matilda Kirkland, 1846
10
The Dew-Drop A Monthly Magazine For The young Second Series, ...
... be the unicorn mentioned in Scripture, and possesses all the rage,
untameableness, and strength ascribed to that animal. They are quiet if not
disturbed, but when roused, the elephant itself is scarcely a match for them. Two
officers ...
