An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![curiofity, for fix Spanith dollars: it live’d with me feven months, but then dye’d of a flux.» He was too young to fhew me many pranks; there- for, i fhal onely tel you he was a great thief, and love’d {trong liquors; for, if our backs were -turn’d, he would be at the punch-bowl, and very often would open the brandy-cafe, and put it very carefully into its place again.* He flept lyeing along, in a human posture, with one hand under his head.+ He could not fwim, but i know not whether he might not have been ca- pable of being tatght. If, at any time, i was angery with him, he would figh, fob, and cry, til he found that i was reconcile’d to him; and, _ though he was but about twelve months old * Doctor Tyfon relates of his pygmie: “ Once it was ; made drunk with punch, but it was obferve'd, that, after that time, it would never drink above one cup, and refufe’d the . offer of more than what he found agree’d with him.”’ (Aza- tomy, &c. p. 39.) | + “ After our pygmie was taken,” fays doctor Tyfon, “and a little ufe’d to wear cloaths, it was fond enough of them; _ and what it could not put on ‘ its’ felf, it would bring in ‘ its’ hands to fome of the company, to help ‘ it’ to put [it] on. It would lie in a bed, place ‘ its’ head on the pillow, and pull the cloaths over ‘ it’, as a man would do’’...It was very ful of lice, he ads, exactly like thofe on human bodys: Signor Rhedi abferveing in mofi animals a particular fort of louie. 4 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
