... not identified with the University of Dublin, it will altogether valueless In England a Scotch literary degree not worth a blackberry. It confers no character, no distinction on the party who has acquired it. A degree of the University of London is not worth ...

... country will escape from this incubus. What is wanted at resent isan ex: cuse Dot a reason—for reasons are as plentiful as blackberries— and untilthe chapter of accidentsturnsone up, the sliding scale muot be endured. NOW LANDING AND FOR SALE BY,THE SUB- ...

... Ivory-buildings. .. On Saturday morning she went toPatchara with another girl, named Mary Fuller, for the purpose of gatherirg blackberries. In the fields they met with a little boy, named Pentecost, who was very civil,and assisted in gathering the berries. They ...

... year—three in May, one in July, and three in October; and during -these busy periods, when gamblers and jockeys are thick as blackberries, the usual current of conversation is so much the mystery to an uninitiated, that astranger would be exceedingly apt to ...

... Grim-visaged war has smooth’d his wrinkled front 5” and all the professions are overstocked,—when men are “as plenty as blackberries,”—and Captains and Colonels have nothing better to do with themselves than to “ marry and settle in the country,” — T lose ...

... money. 1 knew nothing about her, and had never heard of her sjw«* from his own description; hut the words as dark as as a blackberry” had fixed her colour indelibly on mind. Judge of astonishment when I was introduced to one of the most beautiful creatures ...

... of coast I have men- tioned. Charges of ing, sinecurism, wilful negligence, &e, are of course much more plentiful then blackberries are Xt this season ; for such is the mode ji in which they argue public and private questions in But I shall not enter ...

... rich vales and woods of Somersetshire ; where Falstaff doubtless originated this happy thought of reasons being plenty blackberries —for never did I behold such lavish profusion of fruit, as that of our hedgerows and copse woods this summer.—■ Examiner ...

... keep the eace, “ Oh !—that’s it, is it 2” Mes. Barrier—* then here goes !” and so saying she jumped up “ like acock at a blackberry,” and gave Mr. Barrier such 9 on the cheek that all the office echoed to the blow.— Having achieved this feat, she tripped ...

... letter, Mr. Black, on the 21st of April, wrote the following reply : Reasons, my dear Sir, as Falstaff says. are plenty blackberries ; but I will give no man a reason on compulsion.’ 1 refer you to Canon 101—* No licence shall be granted hut to such persons ...

... Worship, not entirely w, hut who could reckon themselves safe, within any of mail with a pistol in hi? hand, who could shoot blackberry mile off. Mr. M.u.fint —So help God, and upon my lioimr, 1 had pistol with me the occasion; hut I scorn tell lie alxiut ...

... s ami inconsistency—a brawling Bravo—without the mind of a gentleman, or the spirit a true Pairiot—(hear)—not cmtng one blackberry what mischief he may bring down on Ins po.tr deluded followers, provided he obtains pelf during tin operation, am! provided ...