Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... 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 be allowed the same freedom of will in what he might please to do with him . I should have thought ...
... 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 be allowed the same freedom of will in what he might please to do with him . I should have thought ...
الصفحة 3
... pounds for this colt , whom I may consider from his previous running to be fairly worth about one . I may think , like others , my chance of winning the Derby to be very good in short , my horse is first or second favourite , but I may ...
... pounds for this colt , whom I may consider from his previous running to be fairly worth about one . I may think , like others , my chance of winning the Derby to be very good in short , my horse is first or second favourite , but I may ...
الصفحة 5
... pounds . For many of these we see every year several " walks over ; " and where this is not the case , the Field generally comprises four or five horses at most , often two or three : so , from the smallness of the amount ( in these ...
... pounds . For many of these we see every year several " walks over ; " and where this is not the case , the Field generally comprises four or five horses at most , often two or three : so , from the smallness of the amount ( in these ...
الصفحة 30
... pounds , shillings , and pence . But the probability of death does not in all cases procure for him an intermission of his labours . This depends . wholly on his value , and how far , in case this common act of humanity were extended ...
... pounds , shillings , and pence . But the probability of death does not in all cases procure for him an intermission of his labours . This depends . wholly on his value , and how far , in case this common act of humanity were extended ...
الصفحة 31
... pounds , sometimes not so much : but such is the case . What must be the infirmities of four good sort of horses to ... pounds , and by working him to death three pounds five shillings is to be got out of him , he is condemned at once ...
... pounds , sometimes not so much : but such is the case . What must be the infirmities of four good sort of horses to ... pounds , and by working him to death three pounds five shillings is to be got out of him , he is condemned at once ...
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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.