 | 1803 - 472 pages
...herself " invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg '." The 'squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver bat as a recompence to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...herself invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg.' The squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 pages
...herself invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg. The "squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver hat as a recompence to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of the place, that some of them... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...herself " invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg *." The 'squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver hat a» a recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...herself " invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg."* The 'squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...herself " invisible to catch the strong fellow bythe leg."* The 'squire of the parish treats the whole on. Though the pure consciousness of worthy actions, abstracted from the v recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...herself ' invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg*.' The squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...herself " invisible to catch the strong fellow by the leg."* The 'squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale ; and proposes a beaver bat as a recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the... | |
 | 1824 - 278 pages
...herself invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg." The 'squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls. This has raised such a spirit of emulation in the youth of... | |
 | Harry Harewood - 1835 - 384 pages
...there mentions " a ring of wrestlers. The squire," says he, " of the parish always treats the whole company, every year, with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat, as a recompense to him who eives the most falls/' The inhabitants of Cornwall and Devon have, we are well... | |
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squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls. 
