Arrian on coursing; The Cynegeticus of the younger Xenophon, translatd from the Greek, with classical and practical annotations, and a brief sketch of ... containing some account of the Canes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...fixed upon a spear, accompanied with men hlowing hunting-horns. Mr. Strype, likewise, in his Ecclesiastical Memorials, Vol. m. p. 378. has preserved a notice of the custom as practised in Queen Mary's time, witlv This Celtic custom I follow with my fellow-sportsmen,1 and XXXIV declare no human undertaking to have a prosperous issue inunctions to the ohservance of religious. rites. this addition, that the priest of every parish in the city, arrayed in his cope, and the hishop of London in his mitre, assisted on the occasion. Camden had likewise seen it when a hoy, and had heard that the canons of the Cathedral attended in their sacred vestments, wearing garlands of flowers on their heads." 1. We cannot hut admire the fine feelings of piety, and conscious dependence on an over-ruling Providence, which pervade the closing chapters of the Cynegeticus. Many splendid passages might he selected from the classical writings of Greece and Rome, demonstrative of the fact that, however darkened hy mythological allusions, the most enlightened heathens supported a conviction of the affairs of this lower world heing under the guidance of a Supreme Intelligence, and of man himself heing utterly weak and destitute when unsupported hy the aid and influence of Heaven. This feeling is strongly manifested in the works of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Orpheus, Phocylides, and a host of others among the Greeks: and notwithstanding the mischievous attempt of the philosophy of Epicurus to eradicate from the Roman mind all sense of dependency on Heaven, (as if the Divine Essence, in relation to human conduct, " nec hene promeritis capitur, nec tangitur ira,") the works of Virgil, Horace, and Claudian afford splendid examples of the important truth that the natural aspiration...