The general character of the dog: illustrated by a variety of original and interesting anecdotes of that beautiful and useful animal in prose and verse / By Joseph Taylor.
- Joseph Taylor
- Date:
- 1804
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The general character of the dog: illustrated by a variety of original and interesting anecdotes of that beautiful and useful animal in prose and verse / By Joseph Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TO THE READER. ———E—EE I HAVE long been a painful obferver of the great cruelties which the brute creation frequently undergo, and particularly the Dog, who is the fubjett of the prefent work: It is but too obvious that young people, repeatedly, from incaution and not knowing their generous nature, infli@ fe~ vere punifhment on thefe kind creatures, which Divine Providence has been pleafed to make fubfervient to us, without once confidering how neceffary they are, as links of the grand chain of the univerfe, for our affiftance, amufement, and very frequently our prefervation. I have, therefore, as the friend of that truly generous animal, whofe merits] am proud to rehearfe, com. pleted](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22031649_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
