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... better fortune : he could'nt make it even second for a £ 100 Sweepstakes , three years old , seven subscribers . Speed the Plough was the victor . The flavour of the Port was poor indeed . The King of Trumps was heads , and Filius tails ...
... better fortune : he could'nt make it even second for a £ 100 Sweepstakes , three years old , seven subscribers . Speed the Plough was the victor . The flavour of the Port was poor indeed . The King of Trumps was heads , and Filius tails ...
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... better than no fight . It was not an anniversary of promise ; precedents , and premises in account . Epsom's " pride , pomp , and circumstance , " are on the wane : no longer , as of yore , may it be said- " there all is gentle and ...
... better than no fight . It was not an anniversary of promise ; precedents , and premises in account . Epsom's " pride , pomp , and circumstance , " are on the wane : no longer , as of yore , may it be said- " there all is gentle and ...
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... better luck ; ' tis not often a first - class hunter does his day's work with less than six stone upon his back . The first year of the Fifth Ascot Triennial Stakes was a good turn for the fielders ; Meteora , quite a pet in the Market ...
... better luck ; ' tis not often a first - class hunter does his day's work with less than six stone upon his back . The first year of the Fifth Ascot Triennial Stakes was a good turn for the fielders ; Meteora , quite a pet in the Market ...
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... better than the Ring gave him credit for by several points ; but , at the best , the performance was mediocre . Tuesday , of course , was com- prised in the Cambridgeshire , with a field of nine 16 THE TURF IN " FIFTY - THREE . "
... better than the Ring gave him credit for by several points ; but , at the best , the performance was mediocre . Tuesday , of course , was com- prised in the Cambridgeshire , with a field of nine 16 THE TURF IN " FIFTY - THREE . "
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... better wield the axe , apply the brushing - bill , or tighten the chains of the cuts . ' He also paid strict attention to birds , watched their habits , and learned their history , not from the pages of books , but from the great page ...
... better wield the axe , apply the brushing - bill , or tighten the chains of the cuts . ' He also paid strict attention to birds , watched their habits , and learned their history , not from the pages of books , but from the great page ...
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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...