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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 repealing the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening... "
Prince Albert's Golden Precepts: Or, The Opinions and Maxims of His Royal ... - Page 95
by Albert (Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain) - 1862 - 133 pages
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The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural ..., Volume 71

1859 - 668 pages
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 29

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1860 - 722 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and tlie same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. Is it, then, to be wondered at, that the interests of Science, abstract as Science appears, and not...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2, Issue 5; Volume 5

1860 - 612 pages
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...active, enterprising, and self-determining people like OBIS, where every interest works for itself, considers itself the all important one, and makes its...
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present ...

John Camden Hotten - 1860 - 328 pages
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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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The principal speeches and addresses of ... the prince consort [ed. by sir A ...

Albert (consort of Victoria, queen of Gt. Britain.) - 1862 - 280 pages
...Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...This is more particularly the case in a free, active, enterprizing, and selfdetermining people like ours, where every interest works for itself, considers...
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The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ...

John Camden Hotten - 1865 - 360 pages
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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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The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal

John Camden Hotten - 1874 - 448 pages
...nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention...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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