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... remark is par- ticularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is known , and the properties of their progenitors , breeding from them is quite a matter of chance . Such a mare may have the appearance ...
... remark is par- ticularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is known , and the properties of their progenitors , breeding from them is quite a matter of chance . Such a mare may have the appearance ...
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... remarked that some of our best horses were first foals : Doctor Syntax , Filho da Puta , Touchstone , and Sir Hercules . Several others might be enumerated , but they do not occur to me at the present moment . Paynator was twenty years ...
... remarked that some of our best horses were first foals : Doctor Syntax , Filho da Puta , Touchstone , and Sir Hercules . Several others might be enumerated , but they do not occur to me at the present moment . Paynator was twenty years ...
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... remark . All at once it flashed upon him that it must have been Mrs. Bloker whom he had seen , a short hour ago , in something less than demi - toilette ; and the agonizing neces- sity of apologizing impelled him to blurt out- “ I ...
... remark . All at once it flashed upon him that it must have been Mrs. Bloker whom he had seen , a short hour ago , in something less than demi - toilette ; and the agonizing neces- sity of apologizing impelled him to blurt out- “ I ...
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... remark that ( according to our private calculations from the data in its columns of Dec. 18th ) Earl Derby has beaten Mr. Bowes by £ 402 for the head place , and that Lord Glasgow has improved by £ 670 upon his £ 2,250 winnings of last ...
... remark that ( according to our private calculations from the data in its columns of Dec. 18th ) Earl Derby has beaten Mr. Bowes by £ 402 for the head place , and that Lord Glasgow has improved by £ 670 upon his £ 2,250 winnings of last ...
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... remark of " playful as an elephant " will lose its irony from Mr. Cooke's surprising tuition of the Wise Elephants of the East . Thither he takes a spin at DRURY LANE ; but is sorely puzzled to make head or tail of " King Humming Top ...
... remark of " playful as an elephant " will lose its irony from Mr. Cooke's surprising tuition of the Wise Elephants of the East . Thither he takes a spin at DRURY LANE ; but is sorely puzzled to make head or tail of " King Humming Top ...
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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...