Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... judge how to lay or take the odds on any of the horses in it when engaged in another Stake . Such poachers are not worthy the name of racing men , though unfortunately they get among them . These are the harpies who plunder the ...
... judge how to lay or take the odds on any of the horses in it when engaged in another Stake . Such poachers are not worthy the name of racing men , though unfortunately they get among them . These are the harpies who plunder the ...
الصفحة 16
... judge by what means they are made to pay in such hands . It has been said that racing levels all distinctions of persons . The idea is preposterous that it must necessarily do so more than driving four - horses or keeping a pack of ...
... judge by what means they are made to pay in such hands . It has been said that racing levels all distinctions of persons . The idea is preposterous that it must necessarily do so more than driving four - horses or keeping a pack of ...
الصفحة 37
... judges of pace : they know if they are going fast , but do not know how fast they are going . " Women are d - d bad judges of pace , my good fellow , " said a friend of mine to me , whose pretty and really amiable little wife had spent ...
... judges of pace : they know if they are going fast , but do not know how fast they are going . " Women are d - d bad judges of pace , my good fellow , " said a friend of mine to me , whose pretty and really amiable little wife had spent ...
الصفحة 40
... judges in these matters will agree with me , that the man . who rides straightest to hounds , generally speaking , distresses his horse the least : he keeps near enough to watch the leading hound , or couple or two of - - 66 19 HOC AGE ...
... judges in these matters will agree with me , that the man . who rides straightest to hounds , generally speaking , distresses his horse the least : he keeps near enough to watch the leading hound , or couple or two of - - 66 19 HOC AGE ...
الصفحة 53
... judge of what distress and punishment are to bear . I had locked up the preceding pages in my desk , intending to add a few lines to them at my leisure , nor for months had I given them a thought till the recent Bedford Match of ...
... judge of what distress and punishment are to bear . I had locked up the preceding pages in my desk , intending to add a few lines to them at my leisure , nor for months had I given them a thought till the recent Bedford Match of ...
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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.