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... character of our wholesome , invigorating sports be so worthy a right understanding as the specific gravity of liquids , or the amount of carbon in a marrow - bone ? Let science be their advocate with those who hold them less worthy ...
... character of our wholesome , invigorating sports be so worthy a right understanding as the specific gravity of liquids , or the amount of carbon in a marrow - bone ? Let science be their advocate with those who hold them less worthy ...
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... character of the ring and its professors , and in this work long since I denounced the system as infamous and un- worthy the time in which we live . Letting bygones be bygones , it is enough for me here to record that those who were ...
... character of the ring and its professors , and in this work long since I denounced the system as infamous and un- worthy the time in which we live . Letting bygones be bygones , it is enough for me here to record that those who were ...
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... character : let their properties be difficulty , distress , danger ; but not the struggle on which one looks , while another suffers . The spirit of English sporting more nearly realizes that of which chivalry was the ideal , than any ...
... character : let their properties be difficulty , distress , danger ; but not the struggle on which one looks , while another suffers . The spirit of English sporting more nearly realizes that of which chivalry was the ideal , than any ...
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... character of a sports- man - this was his Grace the Duke of Richmond , whose position was and is amongst the least of his recommendations , and whose recreations are conducted on a principle and supported by services that rendered him ...
... character of a sports- man - this was his Grace the Duke of Richmond , whose position was and is amongst the least of his recommendations , and whose recreations are conducted on a principle and supported by services that rendered him ...
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... provincial world this meeting stands pre - eminent for the character of its workmen and the extraordinary stout foxes which the country has ever produced . On the 17th of 10 THE NORTH DEVON MEETING . THE NORTH DEVON MEETING -BY GELERT.
... provincial world this meeting stands pre - eminent for the character of its workmen and the extraordinary stout foxes which the country has ever produced . On the 17th of 10 THE NORTH DEVON MEETING . THE NORTH DEVON MEETING -BY GELERT.
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Página 6 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 249 - And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go. " They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the Bishop's bones ; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
Página 89 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Página 248 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn.
Página 23 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 165 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Página 247 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And...
Página 249 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before...
Página 401 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Página 168 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.