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... feel she paid dearly in winning the Ascot Oaks for her victory of that ilk at Epsom . The Friar had 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 ...
... feel she paid dearly in winning the Ascot Oaks for her victory of that ilk at Epsom . The Friar had 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 ...
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... feeling pretty con- fident that the occupier had left his home in pursuit of this prey , pro- ceeded to adjust his apparatus for the purpose of securing his prize . He thrust the bottom of the sack into the entrance of the den ' or ...
... feeling pretty con- fident that the occupier had left his home in pursuit of this prey , pro- ceeded to adjust his apparatus for the purpose of securing his prize . He thrust the bottom of the sack into the entrance of the den ' or ...
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... feel confident in their own judgment may rely upon that of the proprietors of this establishment ; for it is quite evident they would not have an animal of inferior kind on the premises . The same discrimination is manifest in every ...
... feel confident in their own judgment may rely upon that of the proprietors of this establishment ; for it is quite evident they would not have an animal of inferior kind on the premises . The same discrimination is manifest in every ...
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... feel inclined to go out hunting ; and La Jeunesse was obliged to remind him twenty times a - day that the horses were all in good wind and fit to go , and that the pack were perfectly well exercised and broken . Still my poor uncle ...
... feel inclined to go out hunting ; and La Jeunesse was obliged to remind him twenty times a - day that the horses were all in good wind and fit to go , and that the pack were perfectly well exercised and broken . Still my poor uncle ...
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... feel inclined to give up hunting alto- gether , certainly the riding part of the business . I forget who the man was , who after a dinner in Leicestershire solemnly addressed the meeting- " Gentlemen , I came down a few days ago ; I ...
... feel inclined to give up hunting alto- gether , certainly the riding part of the business . I forget who the man was , who after a dinner in Leicestershire solemnly addressed the meeting- " Gentlemen , I came down a few days ago ; I ...
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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...