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... Author , who had re- course to the press , in order to present each of them with a legible copy . A few supplementary impres- sions also were provided , for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman , to whom , alone ...
... Author , who had re- course to the press , in order to present each of them with a legible copy . A few supplementary impres- sions also were provided , for the amusement and instruction of the inexperienced sportsman , to whom , alone ...
Página viii
... authors . So much , indeed , has been published , by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that ... author has , therefore , thought it far better , instead of treating too copiously on that head , to give particular ...
... authors . So much , indeed , has been published , by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that ... author has , therefore , thought it far better , instead of treating too copiously on that head , to give particular ...
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... authors , which nothing should induce him to do , after the very flattering manner in which his former editions have been received by the Reviewers and the Public . He now offers to their notice the NINTH edition of this work , which ...
... authors , which nothing should induce him to do , after the very flattering manner in which his former editions have been received by the Reviewers and the Public . He now offers to their notice the NINTH edition of this work , which ...
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... Author having been so generally obliged to write in the first person . Dictatorial , how- ever , as may appear the ... author . But , while occupied in forming this work , it must candidly be confessed , that the writer could not divest ...
... Author having been so generally obliged to write in the first person . Dictatorial , how- ever , as may appear the ... author . But , while occupied in forming this work , it must candidly be confessed , that the writer could not divest ...
Página x
... author has reason to hope , may be de- pended on . In a work of this kind , it requires more ingenuity than the writer can boast of , to avoid entirely those inimical appendages to reading -notes and parentheses . The frequent use of ...
... author has reason to hope , may be de- pended on . In a work of this kind , it requires more ingenuity than the writer can boast of , to avoid entirely those inimical appendages to reading -notes and parentheses . The frequent use of ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker Visualização integral - 1844 |
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