The New sporting magazine, Volum 191850 |
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Side 3
... given with each name ; and , when members of Tattersall's , the names and addresses of the gentlemen who have vouched for their respectability will be added . With respect to provincial gentlemen , their professions and localities will ...
... given with each name ; and , when members of Tattersall's , the names and addresses of the gentlemen who have vouched for their respectability will be added . With respect to provincial gentlemen , their professions and localities will ...
Side 38
... given number of gentlemen taking the field with hounds , the proportion of really scientific sportsmen may have been in favour of the olden times . " But , on the other hand , have we not sacrificed many substantial advantages to mere ...
... given number of gentlemen taking the field with hounds , the proportion of really scientific sportsmen may have been in favour of the olden times . " But , on the other hand , have we not sacrificed many substantial advantages to mere ...
Side 41
... given to a man with fine hands , would be quite an improper one to give to one whose hands are only fit to lug at the mouth of a donkey : an expert fly - fisher will play and kill a very heavy fish with a single hair - so could I ; but ...
... given to a man with fine hands , would be quite an improper one to give to one whose hands are only fit to lug at the mouth of a donkey : an expert fly - fisher will play and kill a very heavy fish with a single hair - so could I ; but ...
Side 43
... given in its manufacture , it may , in fact , be made all but a rasp in a horse's mouth , I might say a saw , for they are made so severe ( or can be so made ) that the bars of the mouth could be cut to the bone . Some snaffles are made ...
... given in its manufacture , it may , in fact , be made all but a rasp in a horse's mouth , I might say a saw , for they are made so severe ( or can be so made ) that the bars of the mouth could be cut to the bone . Some snaffles are made ...
Side 46
... given me , that had been made expressly for this horse ; but he would go away with that . I put a twisted gag snaffle in his mouth ; with this he never pulled more than I wished him ; I ac- count for this by concluding that when he got ...
... given me , that had been made expressly for this horse ; but he would go away with that . I put a twisted gag snaffle in his mouth ; with this he never pulled more than I wished him ; I ac- count for this by concluding that when he got ...
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Side 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...
Side 222 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.