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having flrained every nerve in executing orders 
with equal docility and exaftnefs, he takes pride 
in anticipating the pleafure of his fuperior, and 
even rejoices to meet a glorious death in the field. 
In fhort. Nature has infpired the horfe with love 
and fear of man, together with a due fenfe of his 
dependence, and want of our protection. 
The dog is another domeftic animal, equally at- 
tached to the human fpecies. 
He furpaffes others in his high, but difpropor- 
tioned, forehead, for the advantage of that feature 
is loft by other deformities ; particularly the brutifti 
fhape of his fnout, adapted to the ftrong fenfe of 
fmellingi and accompanied with fallen chaps, or 
rather no chin at all. — Buffon’s opinion is, that a 
dog’s dangling ears are charafleriftic figns of his 
flavery. 
The hare and rabbit have every appearance of 
that exceflive lechery, and low gluttony, by which 
they are diftinguiflied. — What a contraft there is 
between their fhape, and a man’s regular fide-face 
and majeftic figure ! 
The goat* appears to be, in fome meafure, a 
caricature of the flieep j an emblem of avarice, and, 
in every refpeff, a mean, if not a defpicable brute. 
Who 
* Dr. Sue’s defcription of the goat is, —— ** La chevre paroit etre 
en quelque forte une caricature de la brebis : ou croit y voir I’em- 
bleme 
