London Society, Volume 37James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1880 |
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... Whist as a Business Ordeal , The , by Paint ; or my First Day in the Regiment Our London Note - book . Quiet Mr. Worthington Sketcher , The , in the Suburbs : Hampstead Heath Spring Captain , The Stroll , A , in the Harz Telegraphy ...
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... WHIST AS A BUSINESS . เ HERE he comes ! ' ' By gad , so he does ! Hurrah ! Some sport to - night . ' ' Looks rather pale , doesn't he ? ' ' Yes , and will want a good deal of setting up too . ' ' Poor devil ! I pity him . ' As I was not ...
... WHIST AS A BUSINESS . เ HERE he comes ! ' ' By gad , so he does ! Hurrah ! Some sport to - night . ' ' Looks rather pale , doesn't he ? ' ' Yes , and will want a good deal of setting up too . ' ' Poor devil ! I pity him . ' As I was not ...
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James Hogg, Florence Marryat. ON WHIST AS A BUSINESS . ' A FACE IN THE SNOW ! ' A SNOW. IN a proverb , which is one of the household words of the English people , we are told that all work and no play makes Jack a ... Whist as a Business.
James Hogg, Florence Marryat. ON WHIST AS A BUSINESS . ' A FACE IN THE SNOW ! ' A SNOW. IN a proverb , which is one of the household words of the English people , we are told that all work and no play makes Jack a ... Whist as a Business.
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... whist is not gambling ; it is a game which calls forth some of the best faculties of the brain , and causes chance to succumb be- fore science . A whist - player of the first class requires to possess keen powers of observation , a ...
... whist is not gambling ; it is a game which calls forth some of the best faculties of the brain , and causes chance to succumb be- fore science . A whist - player of the first class requires to possess keen powers of observation , a ...
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... Whist should be played for the love of the game , and not for the money it may the means of obtaining . be It has been said that every one thinks he can drive , and most persons think they can play whist . It seems to the uninitiated so ...
... Whist should be played for the love of the game , and not for the money it may the means of obtaining . be It has been said that every one thinks he can drive , and most persons think they can play whist . It seems to the uninitiated so ...
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Page 390 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 489 - There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers, and children are dying of hunger. Now/ he said, ' when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me and we will never rest till the Corn Law is repealed.
Page 56 - If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go.
Page 156 - He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.
Page 138 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 560 - Oh, -woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.
Page 20 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 394 - ... discussion, the numbers were — For the Ministerial Address, 269 ; amendment, 360 — majority against the Government, 91. Ministers now resigned office, and on the 31st of the month Sir Robert Peel accepted her Majesty's commands to form a Ministry. Mr. Gladstone received from his leader the appointments of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. In appearing on the hustings at Newark...
Page 15 - O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end, And so thro' those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee : come, Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself; Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.