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... about ten o'clock in the morning, as a person of the name of John Webster, of Llandysil, near Montgomery, was taking a new foot-ball to the field, to be tried for the afternoon sport, he suddenly dropped down dead, being summoned to appear before that awful ...
... with the by-law. The proceedings in the House of Commons with respect to the Reform Bill most strongly remind us of the foot-ball amusements of our boyhood-to which indeed they bear no slight resemblance. First steps forth my Lord Russell and gives it ...
... of William llorsfall, at Gorton, in that county, on the 14lh of December last. Thirty or forty young men were playing at foot-ball, when, without any preconcert between the prisoner and the de- ceased, a person of the name of Barnes proposed that the prisoner ...
... men in whom the House of Commons can confide, or whether the People of Eng- land's Representatives are to be the sport and foot-ball of any Junto that may hope to rule over us by an unseen and unex- plorable principle of government, utteily unknown to the ...
... speaking of the three glorious days,' he hoped to see the day when all kmgs heads would be rolling about tha streets as footballs for children, and that an attempt on the part of the Duke of Wellington to force a Bourbon on the people of France would ...
... Palace• Yard Stairs, 1641. 6. London and Westminster Steamers. No. 11. CLEAN YOUR HONOUR'S SHOES.-7. London Shoeblack, 1750. 8. Football in Strand. 9. Proclamation of Accession of Edward VI. 10. Palace Yard. 11. Sedan, 1638. 12. Old Hackney Coachman, about 1680 ...
... to amusements ftlore in character with the ad- vanced state of the age, and of public morals. In some parts of England, foot-ball is a favourite game Shrove-tide. The gam'e u a healthy and exhiliraiing one, ao\l is either played by i w0 contending parties ...
... expensive aud most easily obtaioeJ are generally the best, as they will not lezd you out of lawful bounds; as fives, cricket, football. Drawing and mechanical aft, and many philosophical experiments, unite amusement with accomplishment. Never lay bets. Never ...
... passing through it at noon time may see a number ot young men and boys, dressed in fustian, engaged in the favouiite sport of football clusters of women and young giils are habited in gowns of blue cotton, with a cloak drawn over the head in lieu of a bonnet ...
... donkey's tail, and flogged round the town. — David, a shoemaker, and D. Jones, tinman, young men, were charged with playing foot-ball on Sunday last. Discharged with a caution. Wm. Morgan was charged with being one of a number of voung men who had gone round ...
... prime importance, since its decision involves the bondage or the fieedom of the human intellect, and leaves us all the mere foot-balls of resistless influences, or dis. tinguishes us as the controllers of our own destinies. Let it be clearly understood, that ...
... many influential gentlemen among them, all of whom rise early every fine rooming, have open air lectures, games of cricket, football, quoits &c., and then have a wonderful appetite for breakfast. None of the members have any twinges of the gout. An African ...