Forest and Game-law Tales: Merdhin. The manor and the eyrie. The staunch and their work. Old landmarks and old lawsE. Moxon, 1846 |
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الصفحة 76 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
الصفحة 122 - ... now arrived to and wantoning in its highest vigour : both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures ; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons : but with this difference — that the forest laws established only one mighty hunter throughout the land ; the game laws have raised a little Nimrod in every manor.
الصفحة 114 - It is a greater agent than Sir Francis, or any other man, that brings about revolutions," observed Mr. Holloway. " Time is the great teacher of what you call revolutionary doctrine, — and in this instance, eminently. When the old fellow falls in with Nimrod, and lays one hand on his shoulder, and points with the other to the plough and team entering upon the scene, it is a sure warning to Nimrod that he must be off to some other hunting-field.
الصفحة 116 - To get drenched in oil!" "Not exactly. We sportsmen do not clean our own fish, or pluck our own birds : and neither should we cut up the whales we should bag. O...