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" Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men ; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. "
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the ... - Page 12
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1857
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The Faculties of Birds

James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation : — " With what caution does the hen provide...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 8

1836 - 282 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Takt a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation : With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute e seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine, and sailing in To use an instance that comes often under observation. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...put their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation. ¡ 4 With what caution does the hen provide...
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The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine

Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation. With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises ...

James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature, than this instinct in animals,...
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Orthophony; Or, The Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

1847 - 312 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature, than this instinct in animals,...
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Orthophony; Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature, than this instinct in animals,...
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Orthopony; Or the Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. — There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature, than this instinct in animals,...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 3-4

Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. To use an instance that comes often under observation : With what caution does the hen provide herself...
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