| Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...prodigious rate. They are such lovers of riding, that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse : and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...three miles to church, to the court-house, or to a horse-race, where they generally appoint to meet upon business, and are more certain of finding those... | |
| Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...such lovers of riding, that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse : and I have known some upend the morning in ranging several miles in the woods...three miles to church, to the court-house, or to a horse-race, where they generally appoint to meet upon business, and are more certain of finding those... | |
| Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...prodigious rate. They arc such lovers of riding, that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse : and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...three miles to church, to the court-house, or to a horse-race, where they generally appoint to meet upon business, and are more certain of finding those... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 664 pages
...climate-struck." " They are such lovers of riding, that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse ; and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...three miles to church, to the court-house, or to a horse-race."5 He laments the poverty and consequent ineffectiveness of the College of William and Mary... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 670 pages
...climate-struck." " They are such lovers of riding, that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse ; and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...three miles to church, to the court-house, or to a horse-race."2 He laments the poverty and consequent ineffectiveness of the College of William and Mary... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...&c., Vol. I., p. 41. "'They are such lovers of Ruling that almost every ordinary Person keeps a Horse and I have known some spend the Morning in ranging...only to ride two or three Miles to Church, to the Court House, or to the Horse-Race, where they generally appoint to meet upon Business, and arc more... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 560 pages
...a prodigious rate. They are such lovers of riding that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse ; and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...a horse race, where they generally appoint to meet upon business, and are more certain of finding those that they want to speak or deal with, than at... | |
| United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...be climate struck. " They are such lovers of riding that almost every ordinary person keeps a horse, and I have known some spend the morning in ranging...only to ride two or three miles to church, to the court house, or to a horse-race, where they generally appoint to meet upon business; and are more certain... | |
| George Park Fisher - United States - 1898 - 386 pages
...life. " They are such Lovers of Eiding," he says, " that almost every ordinary Person keeps a Horse ; and I have known some spend the Morning in ranging...only to ride two or three Miles to Church, to the Court House, or to a Horse-Race, where they generally appoint to meet upon Business, and are more certain... | |
| George Park Fisher - United States - 1892 - 384 pages
...life. " They are such Lovers of Biding," he says, " that almost every ordinary Person keeps a Horse ; and I have known some spend the Morning in ranging...only to ride two or three Miles to Church, to the Court House, or to a Horse-Race, where they generally appoint to meet upon Business, and are more certain... | |
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