The New sporting magazine, Volume 191850 |
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... racing operate ? It multiplies the chances against those who keep race - horses , exactly in the ratio that they adopt the principle in which it originated - namely , as a national sport , and the pastime of gentlemen . What has , but ...
... racing operate ? It multiplies the chances against those who keep race - horses , exactly in the ratio that they adopt the principle in which it originated - namely , as a national sport , and the pastime of gentlemen . What has , but ...
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... race in this country , the farther he went the more he was beaten . The courser of the desert has thews of steel and a constitution independent of fatigue ; but he cannot live with the stride of the English thorough - bred horse . It is ...
... race in this country , the farther he went the more he was beaten . The courser of the desert has thews of steel and a constitution independent of fatigue ; but he cannot live with the stride of the English thorough - bred horse . It is ...
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... race over a course . I will not affront the readers of these pages by adducing proofs , to show the stuff of which such assertions is made . I saw hundreds of races run last year without a single casualty of any fatal nature to the ...
... race over a course . I will not affront the readers of these pages by adducing proofs , to show the stuff of which such assertions is made . I saw hundreds of races run last year without a single casualty of any fatal nature to the ...
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... race , however , after some tutoring of the quarter- master , the squire won his race by half a yard . He could walk erect under a rail and leap over it , and he could jump on the flat 18 feet both ways . He was always a very early ...
... race , however , after some tutoring of the quarter- master , the squire won his race by half a yard . He could walk erect under a rail and leap over it , and he could jump on the flat 18 feet both ways . He was always a very early ...
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... race - horse , having during the three seasons he was in training never won anything but a fifty - pound plate . As ... Racing Man , " though , is so well up ( as the lawyers say ) in this case , that to make the history complete we ...
... race - horse , having during the three seasons he was in training never won anything but a fifty - pound plate . As ... Racing Man , " though , is so well up ( as the lawyers say ) in this case , that to make the history complete we ...
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Página 289 - In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping : Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping : Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields is our...
Página 222 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time.
Página 106 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 106 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven...
Página 80 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Página 75 - The difficulties which my health, my indecision, my 'procrastination,' as M. de Charlus called it, placed in the way of my carrying out any project, had made me put off from day to day, from month to month, from year to year, the elucidation of certain suspicions as also the accomplishment of certain desires.
Página 169 - From a similar principle to which, though the forest laws are now mitigated, and by degrees grown entirely obsolete, yet from this root has sprung a bastard slip, known by the name of the game law, now arrived to and wantoning in its highest .vigour: both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons; but with this difference, that the...
Página 105 - No, I never knew before how useful a drudge you were : now I have found what you are good for, you may depend upon it I will keep you to it.
Página 365 - Buonaparte, having collected the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th corps of the French army and the Imperial Guards, and nearly all the cavalry on the Sambre and between that river and the Meuse, between the 10th and the 14th of the month, advanced on the 15th and attacked the Prussian posts at Thuin and Lobez, on the Sambre, at daylight in the morning.
Página 366 - Maitland, on the 26th in . the afternoon. The troops took the hornwork, which covers the suburb on the left of the Somme, by storm, with but small loss ; and the town immediately afterwards surrendered, on condition that the garrison should lay down their arms and be allowed to return to their homes.