... his simplicity. He, indeed, does not reason— he never did. His common- places and platitudes are, as before, as plenty as blackberries ; but they have lost their effect. The phrases which carried the applause of crowds have now become as impotent as they ...

... ng than another, it is to be com- pelled to listen in silence to the orations of a man whose words are as plentiful as blackberries and whose ideas are in an inverse ratio. At all times, and under all circumstances, it is a nuisance ; but if the orator ...

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... they can reap a profit at the price of the cheapest markets of the world. Brutuses seem to be just now as plentiful a blackberries, and we may presume that, according to the favourite alliteration ofthe Tom Paixe school of fifty years ago, tyrants are ...

... order, and has no sort of sympathy with the race of dwarfish demagogues of the Mazzini type, who sprung up as plentiful as blackberries in the year of revolutions; and yet, not- withstanding the abundance of the crop, never pro- duced one single brave, earnest ...

... pangs of hunger, j spread over the fields, and scores might be seen busily s ; engaged clearing the hedges of the delicious blackberries ! j with which they were loaded. In the meantime the car- f J riages were detached and taken over beyond Kirkby, when, ...