 | Chess - 1841 - 468 pages
...be one continued subterfuge and stratagem; his dwelling in the dens of the earth, in clefts of the rocks, or in the hollows of trees ; his food worms,...relics mangled by more powerful beasts of prey, or * Discourse on Natural Philosophy. contemned by their more pampered choice," which is, in other words,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...— man, if abandoned to mere instinct, would be of all creatures the most destitute and miserable. Distracted by terror and goaded by famine ; driven...prey, or contemned by their more pampered choice. [St John's College Fellowships, 1840.] 69. Br a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...destruction of his nobler prey, his existence would be one continued subterfuge or stratagem;—his dwelling would be in dens of the earth, in clefts...of prey or contemned by their more pampered choice. SIR J. HERSCHEL 68. ANALOGY TO NATURAL LAWS IN THE TRANSMISSION OF GOVERNMENT. By a constitutional... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...subterfuge or stratagem; his dwelling would be in dens of the earth, in clefts of rocks, or in the hollow o: trees; his food, worms and the lower reptiles, or...prey, or contemned by their more pampered choice. Eemarkable only for the absence of those powers and qualities which obtain for other animals a degree... | |
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... would be of all creatures the most destitute and miserable. Distracted by terror and goaded by famine ; driven to the most abject expedients for concealment from his enemies, and to the most cowardly devices for the seizure and destruction of his... 