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... fact , or it must be presumed that which was intended to be conveyed was- " The object of the act is not to interfere with horse - racing , but solely to put down the system of betting in bet- ting - offices , which has been productive ...
... fact , or it must be presumed that which was intended to be conveyed was- " The object of the act is not to interfere with horse - racing , but solely to put down the system of betting in bet- ting - offices , which has been productive ...
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... fact , he began to be terrified . Suddenly , however , he fell down with great force , as though he had received a heavy blow from an unknown hand . 666 Och , by holy St. Patrick , ' screamed Larry , ' I'm kilt , my darling , entirely ...
... fact , he began to be terrified . Suddenly , however , he fell down with great force , as though he had received a heavy blow from an unknown hand . 666 Och , by holy St. Patrick , ' screamed Larry , ' I'm kilt , my darling , entirely ...
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... fact , that animals do not invariably partake of the nature and properties of their immediate parents ; but they may take after their grandsires and grandams , and even more remote generations . This is very palpable with reference to ...
... fact , that animals do not invariably partake of the nature and properties of their immediate parents ; but they may take after their grandsires and grandams , and even more remote generations . This is very palpable with reference to ...
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... fact , it was scarcely possible to tell one from the other . As soon as they saw mine uncle , they rushed up to him , dragging with them the valet by their couples , who in vain attempted to restrain them . At a few paces behind us we ...
... fact , it was scarcely possible to tell one from the other . As soon as they saw mine uncle , they rushed up to him , dragging with them the valet by their couples , who in vain attempted to restrain them . At a few paces behind us we ...
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... fact may ac- count for any little asperity which my readers may fancy they discover , viz . , that I am writing this on Monday , the 12th of December , thirteen days before Christmas - day , in a frost as black as my hat , and as hard ...
... fact may ac- count for any little asperity which my readers may fancy they discover , viz . , that I am writing this on Monday , the 12th of December , thirteen days before Christmas - day , in a frost as black as my hat , and as hard ...
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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...