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... passed to render illegal the baiting of animals ; but I recollect in my boyhood hear- ing of cock - fighting still existing at Elmore's Farm , near Harrow , for the amusement of those who were wrongly called sportsmen . But the purer ...
... passed to render illegal the baiting of animals ; but I recollect in my boyhood hear- ing of cock - fighting still existing at Elmore's Farm , near Harrow , for the amusement of those who were wrongly called sportsmen . But the purer ...
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... passed quietly away . Lord Cottenham , who had been Solicitor - General in Lord Grey's administration , and Lord Chancellor in Lord Melbourne's and Lord John Russell's governments , was a friend of my father's , and we often stayed with ...
... passed quietly away . Lord Cottenham , who had been Solicitor - General in Lord Grey's administration , and Lord Chancellor in Lord Melbourne's and Lord John Russell's governments , was a friend of my father's , and we often stayed with ...
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... passed from the " Nursery , " and from the school- room of life , into the Far Country . They used to box , play single - stick , fives , and cricket , and the noise was put down to the printing - press next door . Smoking a terrible ...
... passed from the " Nursery , " and from the school- room of life , into the Far Country . They used to box , play single - stick , fives , and cricket , and the noise was put down to the printing - press next door . Smoking a terrible ...
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... passed away in this dazzling age of electric light ; and I hope , with them , the dark passages and cupboards which were the real terrors of childhood . Soon after my birth my father had completed a small house on the sea - shore at ...
... passed away in this dazzling age of electric light ; and I hope , with them , the dark passages and cupboards which were the real terrors of childhood . Soon after my birth my father had completed a small house on the sea - shore at ...
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... passed through the Post Office ; they were much sought after , for the cost of post- age was considerable : a letter to Scotland or Ireland , of one page , cost about 1s . 3d . , and those who could best afford to pay were those who ...
... passed through the Post Office ; they were much sought after , for the cost of post- age was considerable : a letter to Scotland or Ireland , of one page , cost about 1s . 3d . , and those who could best afford to pay were those who ...
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