Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... given on pages 6 and 7 . He also wishes to acknowledge the great courtesy of Mr. E. North Buxton , Verderer of Epping Forest , who most obligingly supplied him with information as to the present numbers of the fallow deer which , thanks ...
... given on pages 6 and 7 . He also wishes to acknowledge the great courtesy of Mr. E. North Buxton , Verderer of Epping Forest , who most obligingly supplied him with information as to the present numbers of the fallow deer which , thanks ...
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... given a chance by some well - meaning friend who obtained for them a land agency or some similar employment ; but the majority of such characters were in reality no good for any serious work , and , as a wag said , resembled nothing so ...
... given a chance by some well - meaning friend who obtained for them a land agency or some similar employment ; but the majority of such characters were in reality no good for any serious work , and , as a wag said , resembled nothing so ...
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... given , run out with me to sea . I will pay liberally for the rescue . " The affair ended by the Dunleary boys being soundly cudgelled , and sent adrift , after having had a ducking to cool their ardour . 66 An extraordinary individual ...
... given , run out with me to sea . I will pay liberally for the rescue . " The affair ended by the Dunleary boys being soundly cudgelled , and sent adrift , after having had a ducking to cool their ardour . 66 An extraordinary individual ...
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... given by Edward the Confessor in a fit of devotion . The Forest laws were then of exceptional severity . At the dissolution of the monasteries , however , the monks were hunted off the Forest , the King reclaimed his rights , and the ...
... given by Edward the Confessor in a fit of devotion . The Forest laws were then of exceptional severity . At the dissolution of the monasteries , however , the monks were hunted off the Forest , the King reclaimed his rights , and the ...
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... given , as an hereditary grant from the Crown , to Sir Josiah Child , together with many parcels of land in the Forest , the ownership of all the red deer , the fallow deer , and other game being still reserved . The hereditary Lord ...
... given , as an hereditary grant from the Crown , to Sir Josiah Child , together with many parcels of land in the Forest , the ownership of all the red deer , the fallow deer , and other game being still reserved . The hereditary Lord ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...