Volume 3

An history of the earth, and animated nature / [Oliver Goldsmith].

  • Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An history of the earth, and animated nature / [Oliver Goldsmith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m A N \ HISTORY OF - ANIMALS. CHAP. I. V Of Ruminating. Animals. U OF a]l animals, thofe that chew the cud arc the moft harmlefs, and the moft eafily tamed. As they live entirely upon vegetables, it is neither their intereft nor their pleafure to make war upon the reft of the brute creation; content with the paftures where they are placed, they feldom defire to change, while they are furniflied with a proper fupply; and fearing nothing from each other, they generally go in herds for their mutual fecurity. All the fierceft of the carnivorous kinds feek their food VoL.-III, B in