 | 1827 - 362 sivua
...did, OP hath more dexterously prevailed himself thereof on all occasions; since I found no man cou'd be hurt but through some error in fencing. I spent...others, as this world can make him ; the rule for gracefull riding is, that a man hold his eyes always betwixt the two ears, and his rod over the left... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sivua
...sometimes he gives him strength, sometimes agility or motion for the overcoming of his enemy, insomuch, that a good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him. — Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. MCXVI. It is usual with persons who mount the stage for the cure... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 sivua
...sometimes he gives him strength, sometimes agility or motion for the overcoming of his enemy, insomuch, that a good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him. — Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. MCXVL It is usual with persons who mount the stage for the cure... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 sivua
...should delight in a creature, whose chief use is to help him run away :" although elsewhere he says, " a good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him." Why was Chester formerly celebrated for its races ? Because the earliest commencement of a regular... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 sivua
...exercise the 'great horse, fencing, and dancing,' but he places the 'great horse ' first, for the reason that •' a good rider on a good horse is as much...above himself and others as this world can make him.' During the period of activity in Naples and Paris the artists commenced a literature upon the subject... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 sivua
...it is his main business to learn; — riding, specially, of which Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, " A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him." Besides, the gun, fishing-rod, boat, and horse, constitute, among all who... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 358 sivua
...I see why a brave man should delight in a creature, whose chief use is to help him run away — yet a good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others as this world can make him." Next to the chase and shooting, angling was the principal out-door amusement, even with the gentler... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 sivua
...I see why a brave man should delight in a creature, whose chief use is to help him run away — yet a good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as this world can make him." Next to the chase and shooting, angling was the principal out-door amusement, even with the gentler... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 sivua
...sometimes he gives him strength, sometimes agility or motion for the overcoming of his enemy, insomuch, that a good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him. — Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury MCXVI. It is usual with persons who mount the stage for the cure... | |
 | 1860 - 800 sivua
...which it is his main business to learn, — riding specially, of which Lord Herbert of Cherbnry said, " A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him." Besides, the gun, fishingrod, boat, and horse constitute, among all who use... | |
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him. 
