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Ax _autograph letter from her _Majesty to the _Duchess of Leinster _records in _strikins _terms the _favourable ..

... _—There is likely to be a keen contest for the _represema tion of this city . Candidates are positively as plentiful as blackberries , every post _announcing a fresh one . Mr Butt _has determined to take the fieldand _would probably have had a fair _cliance ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1849
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES

... wicked uncle the trustee for the babes in the wood.” Just so! But I preferred on appeal the Lords of the Treasury eating blackberries, and so I take my leave, for the present, of Sir James Weir Hogg and Mr Bailtie.—l remain, .Sir, Ac., C. J. NAPIER, Li ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1848
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 2 | 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

SCOTTISH RECORD,

... illness after eating blackberries and other berries, the sixe of small sloe, which are of poisonous nature ; and that three men, dressed in smock frocks, and having the appearance of countrymen, have been selling heath brooms, blackberries, and a smaller species ...

LITERATURE _THE _COMIC • A _. SSVAI _. _you W 2 . B yT . _Hoon . London : _Uenry Colburn . _Tun year ' 8 _Comic ..

... _their d » y « and nights _to _Hoodlid abandon tho art in despair . _His pun ' _s are »» t onl y thrown out as thick a _. blackberries , but _icy are introduced with consummate skill , and _ many case _. _. united to poetry of a high order . • nuecd , ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1842
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1583 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE RIVER PLATE

... of his fowling piece at a girl sixteen years old, who had stepped iron her father's garden into a plantation to gather blackberries. Several shots entered into the pour girl's body. The Deify Nero has the following remarks upon the occurrence We reported ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1846
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1985 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

_THE _ELECTION CONTEST IN EAST _SUFFOLK

... meaning . Tlie _fanners at tlie _last _election were _gulled by tlie _pledges and _promises , _wliicli wero plentiful as _blackberries in their _hedges , and were nearly as valueless . These _men , proverbially slow to learn , have been rendered wise by ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1843
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1660 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

(From our Prirote Correspondent.)

... deal, fluttering like a butterfly from flower to flower, without chart or compass. his humorous allusions, plentiful as blackberries, as he neared each vulnerable point, gave zest to a debate which is generally conversational and looks wearisome in print ...

TBXX TO BE DECLARED

... and with the assistance of two large soup tureens, the numerous dishes were all displayed. bed among other luxuries fresh blackberries, end bon-bons, the latter were rather dry. and bed no doubt travelled far. Each man bad three pronged fork, and regular ...

Englanb. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. The Court is expected to return to Windsor from Scotland on the Ist or 2d

... health is daily improving. The frequent attacks of illness to which Sir W. Follett is liable, originated is a surfeit of blackberries, when a school-boy at Eon.--Berriek Warder. The Madras Atheneum hes learned, ou the authority of a private letter, that ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1844
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1733 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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' ...