 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...Gibraltar, a distance of more than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, which he had never traversed...road, was attributed to the circumstance of his having been formerly nscd to whip criminals upon, which was indicated to the peasants, who hare a superstitious... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1843 - 452 pages
...he had never traversed before, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, and in so short a period that he could not have made...road was attributed to the circumstance of his having been formerly used to whip criminals upon, which was indicated to the peasants, who have a superstitious... | |
 | M. C. Best - 1844 - 204 pages
...which he had never traversed before, through a mountainous, intricate country, intersected by streams, and in so short a period that he could not have made one false turning. His not having been stopped on the road, was attributed to the circumstance of his having... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...Gibraltar — a distance of more than two hundred miles — through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, which he had never traversed...period that he could not have made one false turn. DOCILITY. The docility of the horse is one of the most remarkable of his natural gifts. Furnished with... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pages
...never traversed before, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, and in w short a period that he could not have made one false turn. His not having been stoppw on the road was attributed to the circumstance of his having been formerly used to wb'P criminals... | |
 | 1833 - 604 pages
...Gibraltar, a distance of more than two hun. dred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country ; intersected by streams, which he had never traversed...period that he could not have made one false turn.'" 196. But in other and in common instances, animals display the nearest approach to human reason. They... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 pages
...Gibraltar, a distance of more than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, which he had never traversed...period, that he could not have made one false turn. If we may believe the account given of the popular amusements at Cairo, at the close of the Mahometan... | |
 | M C. Best - 1849 - 308 pages
...not having been stopped on the road, was attributed to the circumstance of his having been formerly used to whip criminals upon, which was indicated to...have a superstitious horror of such asses, by the hole in his ears to which the persons flogged were tied.* But we must turn from this poor, ahject,... | |
 | 1841 - 804 pages
...not having been stopped on the road, was attributed to On1 circumstance of his having been formerly used to whip criminals upon, which was indicated to the peasants, who have a superstitious horror of »uch asses, by the holes in his ears, to which the persons flogged were tied. A LEVELLER, perceiving... | |
 | 1850 - 240 pages
...intersected by streams, and in so short a |ieriod, that he could not have made one false turn. Hia not having been stopped on the road, was attributed to the circumstance of his having formed^ been^ged to whip criminals upon, which wnHMicatcd to the peasants, who have a superstitious... | |
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Gibraltar, a distance of more than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, which he had never traversed before, and in so short a period, that he could not have made one false turn. 
