The New sporting magazine, Volum 191850 |
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... Half of the nineteenth century is gathered to the past . How many of us shall be such as it is , long ere the other moiety be also numbered among the things that were ! These are grave thoughts , for those espe- cially with whom they ...
... Half of the nineteenth century is gathered to the past . How many of us shall be such as it is , long ere the other moiety be also numbered among the things that were ! These are grave thoughts , for those espe- cially with whom they ...
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... Half of the nineteenth century is gathered to the past . How many of us shall be such as it is , long ere the other moiety be also numbered among the things that were ! These are grave thoughts , for those espe- cially with whom they ...
... Half of the nineteenth century is gathered to the past . How many of us shall be such as it is , long ere the other moiety be also numbered among the things that were ! These are grave thoughts , for those espe- cially with whom they ...
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... half - gap half - fence , that with two ditches separates him from the field where the master of the hounds is . How he handles his instruments ! The chestnut horse puts his hind feet exactly on the solitary spot of sound ground , and ...
... half - gap half - fence , that with two ditches separates him from the field where the master of the hounds is . How he handles his instruments ! The chestnut horse puts his hind feet exactly on the solitary spot of sound ground , and ...
Side 18
... half - sneer half- ferocity at the squire ( 5 feet 11 high , 13 stone 10 weight ) , who gets away , then goes quick in , with terrible hits right and left , and again away - repeated several times , and after one continuous round of ...
... half - sneer half- ferocity at the squire ( 5 feet 11 high , 13 stone 10 weight ) , who gets away , then goes quick in , with terrible hits right and left , and again away - repeated several times , and after one continuous round of ...
Side 27
... half a length , and nothing near the three placed . At Bath , ridden by Mr. Beville , and carrying 10st . 10lb . , he won the Grand Open Handicap of 15 sovs . each , with 70 added , four miles , beating Mr. Oliver's Vanguard , 10st ...
... half a length , and nothing near the three placed . At Bath , ridden by Mr. Beville , and carrying 10st . 10lb . , he won the Grand Open Handicap of 15 sovs . each , with 70 added , four miles , beating Mr. Oliver's Vanguard , 10st ...
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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.