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... half million , so to specify the Ring money - to say nothing of bye bargains- one may suppose that the attendance followed suit . The opening day was a positive cram ; the second , by virtue - and vice- of the Tradesmen's Plate , a ...
... half million , so to specify the Ring money - to say nothing of bye bargains- one may suppose that the attendance followed suit . The opening day was a positive cram ; the second , by virtue - and vice- of the Tradesmen's Plate , a ...
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... half forfeit , 8st . 7lbs . , three quarters of a mile , is about my ideal of a race . It is the juste - milieu - jockeys can ride for it , and gentlemen know their worth . This came off a match between Boer , son of Van Tromp , 7 to 1 ...
... half forfeit , 8st . 7lbs . , three quarters of a mile , is about my ideal of a race . It is the juste - milieu - jockeys can ride for it , and gentlemen know their worth . This came off a match between Boer , son of Van Tromp , 7 to 1 ...
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... half - a - score small meetings was discussed , that latter date bringing us to Newcastle- upon - Tyne . Passing this and another provinciality , the " middle " July Newmarket week may have a word generally , saving the 8 THE TURF IN ...
... half - a - score small meetings was discussed , that latter date bringing us to Newcastle- upon - Tyne . Passing this and another provinciality , the " middle " July Newmarket week may have a word generally , saving the 8 THE TURF IN ...
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... half - a - dozen " fivers " in his pocket , is obliged to beg a bargain , and is done - sauve qui peut . Bull has had a long doze ; but the time has come when he must " up and at it . " The Czar - o ' - wits - he must be settled ; " the ...
... half - a - dozen " fivers " in his pocket , is obliged to beg a bargain , and is done - sauve qui peut . Bull has had a long doze ; but the time has come when he must " up and at it . " The Czar - o ' - wits - he must be settled ; " the ...
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... half ruined by it . In the spring the young wheat was nibbled down to the very roots by the enormous herds of red - deer ; in the autumn , the crops of grain were regularly ploughed up by the bands of wild boars ; the roedeer actually ...
... half ruined by it . In the spring the young wheat was nibbled down to the very roots by the enormous herds of red - deer ; in the autumn , the crops of grain were regularly ploughed up by the bands of wild boars ; the roedeer actually ...
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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...