The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting - The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the...
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Author: R. H. (Robert Howlett)
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Language: English
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The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

¥2,134 ¥1,067

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

¥2,134 ¥1,067
Author: R. H. (Robert Howlett)
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting - The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game

How happy were those Sons of Men, who in times past were reputed Persons indued with that noble Gift, aut facere scribenda, aut scribere legenda, that is, either to do such things as deserved to be writ, or to write that which was worth the reading: Now that this ensuing Treatise is worth the reading, and practising too, notwithstanding the little Esteem and Value, that the present Age affords it, I shall endeavour to prove both from the great Antiquity, and Usefulness of this noble Sport of Cocking: A thing esteemd so Sacred, and held in such high Veneration amongst the Antients, that, as Diodorus Siculus testifies, the Fighting-Cock was reckond one of the principal Gods worshiped by the Syrians. And Rabby David, a learned Hebrew Doctor, interpreting the 2 of Kings ch. 17. v. 30, 31. where Nergal is spoken, of which is (as he says) a Cock of the Field, a Champion Cock, a Cock for War, or a Fighting Cock, and by them there Worshiped as a God in Samaria. Which at once denotes the high Esteem and Value, with the great Antiquity also, of these Warlike Birds. And Athenus and Dioscorides, both of them acknowledge the Fighting-Cock to be one of the Deities which the antient Greeks did greatly Adore. And that in their time there was an Altar found in a Vault far under Ground, whereon had been engravend a Cock, and inscribed thus DEO MOUNO. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54372
Author: R. H. (Robert Howlett)
Release Date: Mar 16, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

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