 | John Windele - 1839 - 430 halaman
...cliun,) a stalworth breed, of which old Campionspeaks. " They are not," he says, "without wolves, and greyhounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt." This noble animal is described as similar, in shape to a greyhound, larger than a mastiff, and gentle... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 496 halaman
...Campion, whose history of Ireland was published in 1570, informs us that wolves were objects of the chase. 'They (the Irish) are not,' he says, ' without wolves,...Ponsonby reported from the Committee of Grievances that \\ Bill should be brought in to encourage the killing of wolves and foxes. Effective measures for this... | |
 | William Stewart Trench - 1871 - 408 halaman
...stored of kyne, of excellent horses and hawkes, offish and fowle. They are not without wolves, and greyhounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt. The kyne, as also their cattle, and commonly what els soever the countrey ingendreth (except man),... | |
 | W. BOYD DAWKINS, M.A., F.R.S., G.S., &C. - 1878 - 174 halaman
...whose 'History of Ireland' was published in 1570, informs us that wolves were objects of the chase. ' They (the Irish) are not, he says, without wolves,...a colt.' A century later they appear to have been 1 The authorities for the Irish Mammalia used in this paragraph are — Thompson, 'Nat. Hist. Ireland,'... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1878 - 500 halaman
...lacertas, we may read " euettes " or " evettes," ie efts, that do no harm. Irish," he says, " are not without wolves, or greyhounds to hunt them ; bigger of bone and limme than a colt." * Sir James Ware, in his "Antiquities of Ireland" (1658), notices " those hounds which, from their... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - 1880 - 340 halaman
...published in 1570, refers to the chase of the Wolf there with Wolf-hounds. " The Irish," he says, " are not without Wolves, or greyhounds to hunt them ; bigger of bone and limme than a colt."* Sir James Ware, in his "Antiquities of Ireland" (1658), notices, "those hounds which, from their hunting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 612 halaman
...of venery and the chase. Campion, in his ' History,' says : ' The Irish are not without wolves and greyhounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt'; and Sir James Ware calls these wolf-dogs 'creatures of great strength and size, and of a fine shape.'... | |
 | Donald Mackinnon, Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine (Carmichel) Watson - 1907 - 410 halaman
...Elizabeth, for the historian Campion, writing about 1571, says : 'The Irish are not without wolves, and grey-hounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt.' This bears out the earlier (fifteenth century) Irish record in the Book of Lismore, which says that... | |
 | 1900 - 624 halaman
...beasts of venery and the chase. Campion, in his 'History,' says : ' The Irish are not without wolves and greyhounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt'; and Sir James Ware calls these wolf-dogs ' creatures of great strength and size, and of a fine shape.'... | |
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They (the Irish) are not,' he says, ' without wolves, or greyhounds to hunt them, bigger of bone and limme than a colt. 