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... horse . It is the pace that kills . We know what our racers can do , both as re- gards speed and the faculty of " staying . " Tranby's performances in Mr. Osbaldeston's great Newmarket match may be taken as a fair , but not a flattering ...
... horse . It is the pace that kills . We know what our racers can do , both as re- gards speed and the faculty of " staying . " Tranby's performances in Mr. Osbaldeston's great Newmarket match may be taken as a fair , but not a flattering ...
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... horse of ruthless Sikhs as they would to a flight of stout oaken rails of the sort that may be termed undeniable ; but this is not it . Having got over the obstacles between them and the hounds , having jumped this stile or plumbed that ...
... horse of ruthless Sikhs as they would to a flight of stout oaken rails of the sort that may be termed undeniable ; but this is not it . Having got over the obstacles between them and the hounds , having jumped this stile or plumbed that ...
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... horse he could form an opinion of his performances , but he could not by ex- amining the shape and action of the horse form a tolerably accurate idea of his capabilities . It was otherwise with the hound : no one was more quick or ...
... horse he could form an opinion of his performances , but he could not by ex- amining the shape and action of the horse form a tolerably accurate idea of his capabilities . It was otherwise with the hound : no one was more quick or ...
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... horse's heart was prevented from failing him at the sight of water , and thus he got safe over by his own impetus and spring ; when ten to one by the rider going slowly at it , the horse would thence infer danger and refuse altogether ...
... horse's heart was prevented from failing him at the sight of water , and thus he got safe over by his own impetus and spring ; when ten to one by the rider going slowly at it , the horse would thence infer danger and refuse altogether ...
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... horse . Sometimes it happened that " the fool " was a young farmer trying to turn an honest penny by shewing off a horse for sale ; but whether aristocratic or rusticratic , he escaped not at the hands of the squire , if the delinquent ...
... horse . Sometimes it happened that " the fool " was a young farmer trying to turn an honest penny by shewing off a horse for sale ; but whether aristocratic or rusticratic , he escaped not at the hands of the squire , if the delinquent ...
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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...
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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.