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... hand - a mighty pull of money - and more in store , as will be seen as well as compensation . " . .Need it be said there were eccentric passages in this race , it being the Chester Cup ? 66 " The Lamb thy folly made first favourite ...
... hand - a mighty pull of money - and more in store , as will be seen as well as compensation . " . .Need it be said there were eccentric passages in this race , it being the Chester Cup ? 66 " The Lamb thy folly made first favourite ...
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... hand , most of the great nominations being made on the 1st of January , a larger number of horses is secured for Liverpool , by naming them , than would be the case were the entries postponed to a later period , so that nothing is ...
... hand , most of the great nominations being made on the 1st of January , a larger number of horses is secured for Liverpool , by naming them , than would be the case were the entries postponed to a later period , so that nothing is ...
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... hand ! Well , it was run a match ; and The Hero , with 2 to 1 on him , as well as the 261bs . extra ( avoirdupois ) , was beaten easily by a length . Can't they do some- thing with this Cup to insure a tolerable exhibition for it ...
... hand ! Well , it was run a match ; and The Hero , with 2 to 1 on him , as well as the 261bs . extra ( avoirdupois ) , was beaten easily by a length . Can't they do some- thing with this Cup to insure a tolerable exhibition for it ...
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... hand , hunts- men about the least frequent sufferers , considering their almost daily duties a - field , from accidents of the character illustrated by our artist . This , too , may be tolerably well accounted for : running or not run ...
... hand , hunts- men about the least frequent sufferers , considering their almost daily duties a - field , from accidents of the character illustrated by our artist . This , too , may be tolerably well accounted for : running or not run ...
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... hand to " screw " through as heart could wish . Despite the " festina lentè " style of charging fences , we must say we think , had our friend - if he will allow us to call him so - sent his horse a little faster at it , the squire ...
... hand to " screw " through as heart could wish . Despite the " festina lentè " style of charging fences , we must say we think , had our friend - if he will allow us to call him so - sent his horse a little faster at it , the squire ...
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Page 65 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the...
Page 97 - LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Page 245 - The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow, She draws her favours to the lowest ebb; Her tides hath equal times to come and go, Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web. No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Page 358 - Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage ; Such plays alone should win a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear.
Page 97 - And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Page 298 - MAGNIFICENT Creature ! so stately and bright ! , In the pride of thy spirit pursuing thy flight ; For what hath the child of the desert to dread, Wafting...
Page 140 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 317 - Beholding all, yet of them unespyde. There' he did see that pleased much his sight, That even he...
Page 97 - And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in^ that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
Page 99 - Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant gray!