Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... consider what I now offer as Preface , Introduction , and Apology . I have read prefaces in which the Author assures his reader , if the book is found to beguile a vacant hour of his time that its end and aim will have been fully ...
... consider what I now offer as Preface , Introduction , and Apology . I have read prefaces in which the Author assures his reader , if the book is found to beguile a vacant hour of his time that its end and aim will have been fully ...
الصفحة 2
... consider We will suppose he had Stake on the Monday , and contrary , that he must consider his horse as the pro- perty of the public ; and that , instead of his being at liberty to consult his own interest or pleasure as to the disposal ...
... consider We will suppose he had Stake on the Monday , and contrary , that he must consider his horse as the pro- perty of the public ; and that , instead of his being at liberty to consult his own interest or pleasure as to the disposal ...
الصفحة 3
... considers his interest , and still where the transaction is perfectly honourable and straight- forward . I have a colt ... consider from his previous running to be fairly worth about one . I may think , like others , my chance of winning ...
... considers his interest , and still where the transaction is perfectly honourable and straight- forward . I have a colt ... consider from his previous running to be fairly worth about one . I may think , like others , my chance of winning ...
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... consider now , the seeing a favourite horse win his race one of the most exhilarating moments of a man's life ; and yet ( with the exception of once , and that when quite THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS RUIN STOPPED . 13 a boy.
... consider now , the seeing a favourite horse win his race one of the most exhilarating moments of a man's life ; and yet ( with the exception of once , and that when quite THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS RUIN STOPPED . 13 a boy.
الصفحة 21
... consider before he ventures on the turf : the one is , has he capital to stand a season or two of ill luck ? for be he on the whole as lucky as he will , this will in its turn happen . Thus , if his first year happens to be an unlucky ...
... consider before he ventures on the turf : the one is , has he capital to stand a season or two of ill luck ? for be he on the whole as lucky as he will , this will in its turn happen . Thus , if his first year happens to be an unlucky ...
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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.