 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1707 - 332 pages
...and Deer, becaufe they " are Beafts of Chafe j but it was never accounted either "Cruelty, or Foul Play, to knock Foxes and Wolves on the "head as they can be found, becaufe they are Beafts of Prey. In a word, the Law and the Humanity were alike; the One being more... | |
 | 1901 - 604 pages
...and deer, because they are beasts of ' chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty or foul ' play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can f be found, because they are beasts of prey.' Although we cannot pretend to trace any connexion between... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1807 - 506 pages
...and deer, becaufe they are beafts of chafe ; " but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul <' play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they " can be found, becaufe they are beafts of prey." In a word, the law and the humanity were alike ; the one being more... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 606 pages
...to hares and doers, because they are beasts of chace; it was never accounted cither cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they...great things, as war and marriage, they allow no time fur repentance; it would have been too late to make a law, when there bad been no law. My Lords, for... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 624 pages
...to hares and deers, because they are beasts of chace ; it was never accounted either cruelly or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they...prey : The warrener sets traps for powlcats and other verm in, for preservation of the warren. Further, my Lords, most dangerous diseases, if not taken in... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 624 pages
...to hares and deers, because they be beasts of chase : It was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they...these be beasts of prey. The warrener sets traps for polecats and other vermin, for preservation of the warren. Farther, my Lords, most dangerous diseases,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 628 pages
...and deer, because they are 7 " beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either " cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves " on the head as they can be found, because they " are z beasts of prey." In a word, the law and the humanity were alike ; the one being more fallacious,... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1826 - 624 pages
...and deer, because they are y " beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either " cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves " on the head as they can be found, because they " are z beasts of prey." In a word, the law and the humanity were alike ; the one being more fallacious,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1829 - 198 pages
...hares and deer, because they are beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they are beasts of prey."— Clarendon, i. 232. The argument is barbarous, but the illustration of... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 566 pages
...because they be beasts of chase; it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes or wolves on the head, as they can be found, because...these be beasts of prey. The warrener sets traps for polecats and other vermin, for preservation of the warren." In other words, Strafford must be destroyed,... | |
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It is true we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase : it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because these be beasts of prey. 
