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... minds keep ever with their likes ; For who so firm that cannot be seduced ? " The week which followed the great Surrey Saturnalia was made up of an Olympian olla podrida - a most unsavoury mess . At Wye they worked nine races out of the ...
... minds keep ever with their likes ; For who so firm that cannot be seduced ? " The week which followed the great Surrey Saturnalia was made up of an Olympian olla podrida - a most unsavoury mess . At Wye they worked nine races out of the ...
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... mind this constitutional order , inasmuch as the epoch of miracles is stated to have ceased considerably before the 19th century . Fifteen hundred years hence , historical record of the immortality of crowned heads in 1853 will be ...
... mind this constitutional order , inasmuch as the epoch of miracles is stated to have ceased considerably before the 19th century . Fifteen hundred years hence , historical record of the immortality of crowned heads in 1853 will be ...
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... mind upon your health - tempt me no farther : Shall I be frighted when a madman stares ? " Thus far hath it gone- " tempt me no farther " : or , like the " steam- leg , " I never stop . Your grandmother would THE TURF IN " ' FIFTY ...
... mind upon your health - tempt me no farther : Shall I be frighted when a madman stares ? " Thus far hath it gone- " tempt me no farther " : or , like the " steam- leg , " I never stop . Your grandmother would THE TURF IN " ' FIFTY ...
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... mind can imagine that a superior and valuable foal will be the issue of an inferior mare is an anomaly difficult to reconcile . It is a theory dangerous to circulate ; for too many persons are inclined , when they have mares which are ...
... mind can imagine that a superior and valuable foal will be the issue of an inferior mare is an anomaly difficult to reconcile . It is a theory dangerous to circulate ; for too many persons are inclined , when they have mares which are ...
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... mind at the moment , and that was that he felt glad that Madame de Bologne had died , for he was quite sure that it was her alone who had hindered his master from hunting so long . The following day the hounds had no sport . The rain ...
... mind at the moment , and that was that he felt glad that Madame de Bologne had died , for he was quite sure that it was her alone who had hindered his master from hunting so long . The following day the hounds had no sport . The rain ...
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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...