The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, Volum 42Longmans, Green and Company, 1915 |
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Pàgina 390 - ... are still played in various English schools. Rugby adopted "Rugby" in 1841, several years after Cambridge had helped to popularize it. A commemorative stone at Rugby reads as follows: THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL, AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME, FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT, THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823...
Pàgina 377 - was well chosen ' on a little eminence erect,1 facing the south-east, with a grove of willow, poplar, and elm at the back to shield it from the north and west winds. The kennel was spacious, with a fine brook babbling through. He kept about twelve couple of beagles, bred chiefly between the small Cotswold harrier and the Southern hound ; six couple of foxhounds, rather rough, and wire-haired ; and five couple of otterhounds, which in the winter season made an addition to the fox-hounds...
Pàgina 378 - And airs soft-warbling; my hoarse-sounding horn Invites thee to the Chase, the sport of kings, Image of war, without its guilt.
Pàgina 104 - Engeine held lands in Pitchley, in the county of Northampton, by service of finding at his own cost certain dogs for the destruction of wolves, foxes, &c., in the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Essex, and Buckingham ; nay, as late as the eleventh year of Henry VI.
Pàgina 337 - Olly shot him all over with a walkingstick from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail.
Pàgina 46 - Her brown hair was drawn loosely back from her low forehead, and gathered into a knot at the back of her head, her eyes were large and lustrous with dark brows and lashes, her profile was perfect, and guide. "Ah, la C destine!
Pàgina 240 - ... remember that exact agreement in regard to the professional training of high-school teachers is not necessary for progress, in fact, exact agreement would soon stop advancement. Precise delimitations of method will probably be sought by the pedant, the inefficient, and those who lack originality, but it is to be hoped that the day is far distant when cut-and-dried methods of the same type shall be imposed on the secondary teachers of this land. There may be — and there probably should be —...
Pàgina 176 - And for these also, O Lord, the humble beasts who with us bear the burden and heat of the day, and offer their guileless lives for the well-being of their countries, we supplicate Thy great tenderness of heart, for Thou hast promised to save both man and beast, and great is Thy loving kindness, O Master, Saviour of the world. Lord, have mercy.
Pàgina 377 - ... hound as to make, size, and strength, (by which the fox-hound is easy to be distinguished); but I should also expect by fox-hunting, a lively, animated, and eager pursuit, as the very essence of it.
Pàgina 374 - Trial by Jury" the members of the jury express this type of feeling when they declare : Oh, I was like that when a lad ! A shocking young scamp of a rover. I behaved like a regular cad ; But that sort of thing is all over.