He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the voice of the driver.

The range of the mountains is his pasture._ The magnificent description of the unicorn and of leviathan, in the same book, is full of the same heightening circumstances: _Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee?
canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
wilt thou trust him because his strength is great ?--Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
will he make a covenant with thee?
wilt thou take him for a servant forever?
shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him ?_ In short, wheresoever we find strength, and in what light soever we look upon power, we shall all along observe the sublime the concomitant of terror, and contempt the attendant on a strength that is subservient and innoxious.

The race of dogs, in many of their kinds, have generally a competent degree of strength and swiftness; and they exert these and other valuable qualities which they possess, greatly to our convenience and pleasure.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation; but love approaches much nearer to contempt than is commonly imagined; and accordingly, though we caress dogs, we borrow from them an appellation of the most despicable kind, when we employ terms of reproach; and this appellation is the common mark of the last vileness and contempt in every language.

Wolves have not more strength than several species of dogs; but, on account of their unmanageable fierceness, the idea of a wolf is not despicable; it is not excluded from grand descriptions and similitudes.