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... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS - BY CECIL . 22 MEMOIRS OF SPORTING IN FRANCE - BY ACTEON .. THE PYTCHLEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS - BY SCRIBBLE 66 THE RELEASE . " · • " 6 MY FRIEND GREEN " ; OR , A CHAPTER IN THE LIFE of a BASHFUL MAN - BY ...
... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS - BY CECIL . 22 MEMOIRS OF SPORTING IN FRANCE - BY ACTEON .. THE PYTCHLEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS - BY SCRIBBLE 66 THE RELEASE . " · • " 6 MY FRIEND GREEN " ; OR , A CHAPTER IN THE LIFE of a BASHFUL MAN - BY ...
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... Court of Conscience - cardinal : " With turrettes and toures , With halls and with boures , Stretching to the starres , With glass windows and barres , Hanging about their walles , Clothes of gold and falles , Arras of ryche arraye ...
... Court of Conscience - cardinal : " With turrettes and toures , With halls and with boures , Stretching to the starres , With glass windows and barres , Hanging about their walles , Clothes of gold and falles , Arras of ryche arraye ...
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... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS . BY CECIL . While foreign states have devoted much money and attention to the ... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUuds , THE HAMPTON COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS-BY CECIL.
... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS . BY CECIL . While foreign states have devoted much money and attention to the ... COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUuds , THE HAMPTON COURT AND DUDDING HILL STUDS-BY CECIL.
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... Court , where the brood mares belonging to Her Majesty are now kept . The paddocks were formed by command of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent , in 1812 , under the direction of the late Mr. Goodwin , whose son was subsequently ...
... Court , where the brood mares belonging to Her Majesty are now kept . The paddocks were formed by command of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent , in 1812 , under the direction of the late Mr. Goodwin , whose son was subsequently ...
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... Court Paddocks have been untenanted by royal property . A small stud of mares has been again formed ; let us hope it may be the nucleus of an establishment worthy of Royalty . At present there are only about twenty mares , which have ...
... Court Paddocks have been untenanted by royal property . A small stud of mares has been again formed ; let us hope it may be the nucleus of an establishment worthy of Royalty . At present there are only about twenty mares , which have ...
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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 2 - ... 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 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 117 - And from the deep-mouthed thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath; She hears the near advance of death ; She doubles, to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round: Till, fainting in the public way, Half dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appeared in view! "Let me," says she, "your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
Page 156 - No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the same...
Page 72 - Because authority, though it err like others, • Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o...
Page 153 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield!
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 116 - As when th' impatient greyhound slipt from far, Bounds o'er the glebe, to course the fearful hare, She in her speed does all her safety lay; And he with double speed pursues the prey...