OXFORD CIRCUIT

... Mr Black, onl the 21st of April, wrote the following reply :- Reasons, my dear Sir, as Falstaff says, c are plenty as blackberries-but I will give no man a reason on compulsion.' I refer you to Canon 101-' No license shiall be granted but to such per- ...

LITERATURE

... ever I heerd tell on, inclulin' them as wvas kivered over bh the rohin redbreasts arter thev'rl committed snoicide with blackberries, there never wass say like that 'eme little Tony. He's alvays a plamin' vith it quart pot that boy is ! To see him a settin' ...

MR. WELLER IN THE CHARACTER OF A GRANDFATHER

... infants as ever heerd tell on, includin' them aswos kivered over the robin redbreasts arter they'd committed sooicide with blackberries, there never any like that 'ere little Tony. He's alvays a playin' with a quart pot that boy is ! To see hi a sittin' down ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1840
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CASE Of ABrATAIFF

... particular pen. In that be is altogether wrong, as indeed he is in nearly all the assumptions, and these are plentiful as blackberries, which he makes throedean his two eolumn-article, With regard to the vituperation which he heaps upon the Evangelical ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1840
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2679 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

perfect hurric

... singing is t his description. His auditors attend each '■onccrt, and every time applaud more heartily The are plentiful blackberries, than before . VO{ . as enthusiastic ami as ! ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1840
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 2440 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Intpow .1 rt;us

... Father Mathew’s labours have done more to depress the sloe than the foreign import. Excellent claret is made from the Irish blackberry, and none but traitors will drink Labile. But it were endless enumerate the cunmodities with the importation of which Ireland ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 4628 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLITICAL EXTBACTS

... Father Mathew’s labours have done more depress the sLe than the foreign import. Excellent claret is he made from the Irish blackberry, and none hut traitors will drink Lafiite. But it were endless to enumerate (he commodities with the importation of which ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

From the Times )

... delightful, and quite like that of England. The highest point the thermometer had reached since the troops landed wav degrees.— Blackberries, the common Scotch fir, sorrell, rosemary, turnips, walnuts, magpies, blackbirds, larks, &c. are mentioned the produce ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4118 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PUSEYISM AND THE PERTH COLLEGE

... matters are rapidly tending, and they will erect churches and hatch curates until both become as plentiful as FaUtaff s blackberries. If something be not done, and that speedily, to arrest the progress of this moral plague, the contagion will continue ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ROUGH EVERY-DAY MAXIMS

... should parade the street with you arm in arm, else you will lean upon a broken reed—these promises are as plentiful as blackberries, but their fulfilment is indefinitely postponed. Never intrude upon a friend who gives you a general invitation to take ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: none