"Shepherd dog" Quotes from Famous Books
... as the original type seems to be involved in dense obscurity. Buffon considered the shepherd dog to be the least modified by domestication—very erroneously, according to Dr Prichard; it is still a vexata questio, whether the original progenitor of the dog be a wolf, a jackal, a fox, or an unknown ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various |