 | Myers & co., booksellers, London - Manuscripts - 1655 - 334 pages
...with running houndes ; which is the most honourable and noblest sorte thereof : for it is a theeuish forme of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes; and grey-hound hunting is not so martial! a game." Warns him also " not to keepe ordinarili in your compauie, CouiaBdians or BaUadines." THE BARE FIRST... | |
 | 1839 - 642 pages
...with running hounds, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof, for it is a theevish form of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes; and greyhound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I condemn it not ; but I must praise it more sparingly, because it neither resembleth... | |
 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - Agriculture - 1824 - 262 pages
...is the most honour" able and noblest sport thereof; for it is a " thievish forme of huntyng to shoot with " gunnes and bowes ; and greyhound hunting " is not so martial a game." * No circumstance, however trivial in itself, is unimportant f , which serves to attach our landowners... | |
 | Horace Smith - Games - 1831 - 406 pages
...running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof ; for it is a thievish form of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and grey-hound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I condemn it not; but I must praise it more sparingly, because it neither resembleth... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...sort thereof; for it is a thievish form of * From the Itinerary of Fynes Morison, published A. P 1617. hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and greyhound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I condemn it not ; but I must praise it more sparingly, because it neither resembleth... | |
 | Arrian - Coursing - 1831 - 332 pages
...supported by the high authority of Edmund de Langley, .J&fltijSter Of <Bame ; ffi- af ®- to 64. adding " it is a thievish forme of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes, and greyhounde hunting is not so martiall a game." But on the other hand, Sir Thomas Elyot, in "The Bicn... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 386 pages
...is a thievish form of * From the Itinerary of Fynes Morison, published A. D 1617. hunting to shootc with gunnes and bowes ; and greyhound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I condemn it not ; but I mn si praise it more sparingly, because it neither resemblcth... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 420 pages
...namely, with running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof; for it is a theivish forme of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes; and greyhound hunting 1 is not so martial a game. " As for hawkinge, I cqndemn it not; but I must praise it more sparingly,... | |
 | Sports - 1847 - 72 pages
...with running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof; for it is a thievish sort of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes; and greyhound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I condemn it not, but I must praise it more sparingly, because it neither resembleth... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 368 pages
...sort thereof; for it is a thievish form of * From tile Itinerary of Fynes Morison, published A. D 1617 hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and greyhound hunting is not so martial a game. As for hawkinge, I con demn it not ; but I must praise it more sparingly, because it neither resembleth... | |
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I cannot omit here the hunting, namely, with running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof ; for it is a thievish form of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and grey-hound hunting is not so martial a game. 
