The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize1845 |
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... suppose a person has been unfortunate enough to send a horse to a Repository for private sale where the master ( who we will call Mr. Nickem ) is as great a rogue as you could desire : of course , the result would depend a good deal on ...
... suppose a person has been unfortunate enough to send a horse to a Repository for private sale where the master ( who we will call Mr. Nickem ) is as great a rogue as you could desire : of course , the result would depend a good deal on ...
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... suppose a Gentleman takes a horse to shew any owner of a Repository : we will suppose the owner values him ( as a middling price ) at sixty he asks Mr. what he thinks the horse is worth : we will just see the predicament Mr. would put ...
... suppose a Gentleman takes a horse to shew any owner of a Repository : we will suppose the owner values him ( as a middling price ) at sixty he asks Mr. what he thinks the horse is worth : we will just see the predicament Mr. would put ...
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... suppose the horse brought to be a clever nag , and eighty is asked for him : Nickem thinks this a price he can get for him ; he by no meaus , however , intends to do so ; that is , the horse be- longs to the present owner , and here is ...
... suppose the horse brought to be a clever nag , and eighty is asked for him : Nickem thinks this a price he can get for him ; he by no meaus , however , intends to do so ; that is , the horse be- longs to the present owner , and here is ...
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... suppose a medium kind of determination in the seller . Nickem has persuaded him he ought to take less than he asked ; and it is left that the seller is willing to make a considerable reduction rather than send the horse back . But this ...
... suppose a medium kind of determination in the seller . Nickem has persuaded him he ought to take less than he asked ; and it is left that the seller is willing to make a considerable reduction rather than send the horse back . But this ...
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... suppose we must sell him without warranting him . " - " I will do that if you please , " says Nickem ; " but it will be a great loss and pity ; had you not better take him home ? " - " Home ! " cries the thoroughly tired - out customer ...
... suppose we must sell him without warranting him . " - " I will do that if you please , " says Nickem ; " but it will be a great loss and pity ; had you not better take him home ? " - " Home ! " cries the thoroughly tired - out customer ...
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Էջ 148 - 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.
Էջ 319 - ... which broke their waves and turned them into foam. And sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs ; some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Էջ 307 - You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish ; what engines doth he make ! Behold how he engageth all his wits ; Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets ; Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line, Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine : They must be groped for, and be tickled too, Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do.
Էջ 319 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Էջ 281 - Plate is run for shall have the power to order an examination of the horse's mouth by competent persons, and to call for all such evidence as...
Էջ 263 - Course (about one mile and three quarters) : the owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes.
Էջ 111 - Birt, who resided among them and wrote in the year seventeen hundred and twenty-five, relates that he has seen the places which they occupied, and which were known by being free from the snow that deeply covered the ground, except where the heat of their bodies had melted it. The same writer represents a chief as giving offence to his clan by his degeneracy in forming the snow into a pillow before he lay down.
Էջ 110 - ... the habit of concentrating their affections within the narrow precincts of their own glens or the limited circle of their own kinsmen — and the necessity of union and self-dependence in all difficulties and dangers, combined to form a peculiar and original character. A certain romantic sentiment, the offspring of deep and cherished feeling, strong attachment to their country and...
Էջ 27 - ... fill up to the brim, We'll drink, if we die for't, a bumper to him.
Էջ 312 - J'avance, l'oiseau part; le plomb, que l'œil conduit, Le frappe dans les airs au moment qu'il s'enfuit ; II tourne, en expirant, sur ses ailes tremblantes; Et le chaume est jonché de ses plumes sanglantes.