Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... allowed , whether he bought an estate , a house , or ten hunters that should cost him a thousand pounds , or any given sum . Any one might naturally suppose , if a man chose to give a thousand pounds for a race - horse , that he would ...
... allowed , whether he bought an estate , a house , or ten hunters that should cost him a thousand pounds , or any given sum . Any one might naturally suppose , if a man chose to give a thousand pounds for a race - horse , that he would ...
الصفحة 3
... allowed to do this without calling forth the animad- versions of the Turfmen - I should rather say the betting men ... allow that to triumph when we win , or show temper when we lose , is ungentlemanlike and ungenerous ; that 4 TURF ...
... allowed to do this without calling forth the animad- versions of the Turfmen - I should rather say the betting men ... allow that to triumph when we win , or show temper when we lose , is ungentlemanlike and ungenerous ; that 4 TURF ...
الصفحة 9
... allowed by all persons who know any thing about the matter , that no man under ordinary circumstances can make money by keeping race - horses , if he merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that ...
... allowed by all persons who know any thing about the matter , that no man under ordinary circumstances can make money by keeping race - horses , if he merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that ...
الصفحة 10
... allow a man to play with either every day , and play for high stakes if he pleases . Provided he always plays for about the same stakes , plays with gentlemen , not Legs , and NEVER BETS , he will find at the year's end that ( supposing ...
... allow a man to play with either every day , and play for high stakes if he pleases . Provided he always plays for about the same stakes , plays with gentlemen , not Legs , and NEVER BETS , he will find at the year's end that ( supposing ...
الصفحة 12
... allowing a little lati- tude of imagination , it might not be very difficult to prove that being born had been the cause of his ruin . If our present object was a dissertation on primary causes , we would allow that his thesis might be ...
... allowing a little lati- tude of imagination , it might not be very difficult to prove that being born had been the cause of his ruin . If our present object was a dissertation on primary causes , we would allow that his thesis might be ...
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الصفحة 394 - 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.