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" Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening... "
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of ... - Page lxviii
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1860
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The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural ..., Volume 71

1859 - 668 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...every interest works for itself, considers itself the albimportant one, and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. Is it, then, to be wondered at...
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Once a Week, Volume 12

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...which is requisite to make his cause understood." A word which has thus been stamped with royal approval in a manner so signal, needs no further defence...
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present ...

John Camden Hotten - 1860 - 328 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...which is requisite to make his cause understood." BOSH", nonsense, stupidity. — Gipsey and Persian. Also pure Turkish, BOSH LAKERDI, empty talk. A...
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Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the ...

Albert (consort of Victoria, queen of Gt. Britain.) - 1862 - 154 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. GROWTH OF LONDON. A CERTAIN dislocation of habits and interests must inevitably attend the removal...
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Prince Albert's Golden Precepts: Or, The Opinions and Maxims of His Royal ...

Albert (Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain) - 1862 - 152 pages
...by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and Meritorious "Bores" 95 the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. GROWTH OF LONDON. A CERTAIN dislocation of habits and interests must inevitably attend the removal...
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The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ...

John Camden Hotten - 1865 - 360 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...which is requisite to make his cause understood." BORE, (Pugilistic,) to press a man to the ropes of the ring by superior weight. BOSH, nonsense, stupidity....
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The Slang Dictionary: Or, the Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ...

John Camden Hotten - 1869 - 602 pages
...same truths and the same reque-sts, Micceeds in awakening attention to the cause which he a-ivocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for selfprotection, aa the minor evil compared to hi* importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood."...
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The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ...

John Camden Hotten - 1872 - 378 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...selfprotection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, buL-which is requisite to make his cause understood." BORE, (Pugilistic,) to press a man to the ropes...
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Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the ...

Albert (consort of Victoria, queen of Gt. Britain.) - 1873 - 154 pages
...constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and ' Meritorious "Sores." 95 the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. GROWTH OF LONDON. A CERTAIN dislocation of habits and interests must inevitably attend the removal...
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The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal

John Camden Hotten - 1874 - 448 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...which is requisite to make his cause understood." Bore (Pugilistic}, to press a man to the ropes of the ring by superior weight. In the world of athletics...
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