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... beautiful bay , and what is equally important for the purpose under consideration , is that of his ancestors , the prevailing colour of which was similar to that of himself ; out of fourteen of his family ten were bay , two brown , and ...
... beautiful bay , and what is equally important for the purpose under consideration , is that of his ancestors , the prevailing colour of which was similar to that of himself ; out of fourteen of his family ten were bay , two brown , and ...
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... of the little pack of bassets , which he could hardly contain in their couples ; they certainly were as beautiful a little lot of about a dozen as I had ever seen , and you might have fancied them all 34 MEMOIRS OF SPORTING IN FRANCE .
... of the little pack of bassets , which he could hardly contain in their couples ; they certainly were as beautiful a little lot of about a dozen as I had ever seen , and you might have fancied them all 34 MEMOIRS OF SPORTING IN FRANCE .
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... beautiful properties with which nature has endowed them ; but whilst hounds and horses are bred as highly as possible , and our young gentlemen , highly bred or not , are all for a burst , there has taken place , as is wont , a somewhat ...
... beautiful properties with which nature has endowed them ; but whilst hounds and horses are bred as highly as possible , and our young gentlemen , highly bred or not , are all for a burst , there has taken place , as is wont , a somewhat ...
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... beautiful and exquisitely symmetrical , though comparatively small , creature that contests the honours of the coursing- plain in modern times , and that , too , with an amount of speed , emula- tion , courage , and endurance , that ...
... beautiful and exquisitely symmetrical , though comparatively small , creature that contests the honours of the coursing- plain in modern times , and that , too , with an amount of speed , emula- tion , courage , and endurance , that ...
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... beautiful abodes , it assists to raise the mind from " nature up to nature's God ! " With regard to the charge of cruelty by which the sport of coursing has been assailed , I may perhaps be allowed to observe that there is hardly any ...
... beautiful abodes , it assists to raise the mind from " nature up to nature's God ! " With regard to the charge of cruelty by which the sport of coursing has been assailed , I may perhaps be allowed to observe that there is hardly any ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 72 - Because authority, though it err like others, • Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o...
Seite 153 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield!
Seite 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...
Seite 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...