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… some kind of elegance and variety to Georgian luxuries. Oliver Goldsmith, author of A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774), was convinced that zebras might be tameable and converted to the sociable purposes of the horse: 3 . … assiduity, might be brought under subjection: for as it resembles the horse in form, it has indisputably a similitude of nature, and only requires the efforts of a skilful and industrious nation to be added to the number of our domestics’. 5 5 . Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (London: Fullarton and Co., 1852), vol. I, p. 285. But the personalities of the Queen’s female zebras, notoriously …
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