
“1415. Every Dog has its Day; and every Man his Hour.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", page 40 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=53&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)
“1415. Every Dog has its Day; and every Man his Hour.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
In re North Australian Territory Co. (1891), L. J. Rep. 61 C. D. 135.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.
“A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 9
“No cause has he to say his doom is harsh,
Who's made the master of his destiny.”
Gessler, Act III, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 2
Context: They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.
"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
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