Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the People, Volumen2Macmillan and Company, 1891 - 401 páginas |
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... learned cruelty , as they have learned drunkenness , from brutal Britons . Those who know India need not be told that this insinu- ation is groundless , since both vices have for ages been rooted in the life of Eastern as of all the ...
... learned cruelty , as they have learned drunkenness , from brutal Britons . Those who know India need not be told that this insinu- ation is groundless , since both vices have for ages been rooted in the life of Eastern as of all the ...
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... learned from the Book of Ardha Viraf , the Dante of the Zoroastrian Inferno . The Hindu worships the cow , and as a rule is reluctant to take the life of any animal except in sacrifice . But that does not preserve the ox , the horse ...
... learned from the Book of Ardha Viraf , the Dante of the Zoroastrian Inferno . The Hindu worships the cow , and as a rule is reluctant to take the life of any animal except in sacrifice . But that does not preserve the ox , the horse ...
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... learned compila- tions which have no root in actual life , epitomise the past , and have no future . " Serious students of Zoolatry and of folk - lore in its scientific sense will therefore find little to interest them in chapters ...
... learned compila- tions which have no root in actual life , epitomise the past , and have no future . " Serious students of Zoolatry and of folk - lore in its scientific sense will therefore find little to interest them in chapters ...
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... have tried to express bird music in syllables . In the notes to Mr. Lane's Arabian Nights are given versions of bird talk as they strike Arab ears , with wondrous instances of learned parrots , including one which knew the II 29 OF BIRDS.
... have tried to express bird music in syllables . In the notes to Mr. Lane's Arabian Nights are given versions of bird talk as they strike Arab ears , with wondrous instances of learned parrots , including one which knew the II 29 OF BIRDS.
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... learned parrots , including one which knew the Qurân right through and corrected a misreading ! The Hoopoe . Other birds are prized for the legends with which they are associated . The hoopoe ( Upupa epops ) has not much to say , but he ...
... learned parrots , including one which knew the Qurân right through and corrected a misreading ! The Hoopoe . Other birds are prized for the legends with which they are associated . The hoopoe ( Upupa epops ) has not much to say , but he ...
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