The New sporting magazine, Volume 271854 |
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... once in their lives Olympic . The on dit was that the conditions of the race - mad and merciless heavens - were all in favour of the Australian , while Sittingbourne " was dead amiss . " Thus runs my post scriptum ; in the first edition ...
... once in their lives Olympic . The on dit was that the conditions of the race - mad and merciless heavens - were all in favour of the Australian , while Sittingbourne " was dead amiss . " Thus runs my post scriptum ; in the first edition ...
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... once again submitting to public scrutiny , pirouetted around the post . The party numbered eight - and - twenty , and the reception was the perfection of etiquette . “ Now , ” said the master of the ceremonies , “ are you all ready ...
... once again submitting to public scrutiny , pirouetted around the post . The party numbered eight - and - twenty , and the reception was the perfection of etiquette . “ Now , ” said the master of the ceremonies , “ are you all ready ...
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... Once upon a time there was a social communion , whose bond of association was the moral stipulation — " all men are cqual . " They were called Christians . The select of that sublime fraternity knew not what to do with their palaces ...
... Once upon a time there was a social communion , whose bond of association was the moral stipulation — " all men are cqual . " They were called Christians . The select of that sublime fraternity knew not what to do with their palaces ...
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... once more came to oppose the St . Leger winner for the Grand Duke Michael Stakes , the stable of the former were too happy to compromise matters by according a third of the stakes to Cobnut , to be spared a contention , by being allowed ...
... once more came to oppose the St . Leger winner for the Grand Duke Michael Stakes , the stable of the former were too happy to compromise matters by according a third of the stakes to Cobnut , to be spared a contention , by being allowed ...
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... once upon a time a writer , named Scribble - but you know the rest : and , my very excellent friends , if you were only to see the fields down here , I mean not only the Pytchley , but every pack of hounds in the Midland Counties , you ...
... once upon a time a writer , named Scribble - but you know the rest : and , my very excellent friends , if you were only to see the fields down here , I mean not only the Pytchley , but every pack of hounds in the Midland Counties , you ...
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Page 157 - ... assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as aforesaid...
Page 157 - ... thereof, betting with persons resorting thereto ; or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner...
Page 153 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 80 - ... the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Page 3 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Page 159 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 117 - Ten brace, and more, of greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as stags, ran loose, and coursed around his chair...
Page 446 - Percé jusques au fond du cœur D'une atteinte imprévue aussi bien que mortelle, Misérable vengeur d'une juste querelle, Et malheureux objet d'une injuste rigueur, Je demeure immobile, et mon âme abattue Cède au coup qui me tue.
Page 2 - ... as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race...
Page 313 - Nose and chin would shame a knocker, Wrinkles that would puzzle Cocker; Mouth which marks the envious scorner, With a scorpion in each corner, Turning its quick tail to sting you, In the place that most may wring you...