... so as to produce the anomaly. Yet it is impossible to judge each series except according to its own rule. A man picks a blackberry in the hedge ; from that he proceeds to pluck a nut; he next tears up a turnip; then digs a stalk of potatoes; finally he ...

... it commenced. Reasons for the great wig fulminated against the Bengal colonels have been, for some time, plenty as blackberries. One authority describes it a fling at the departing conqueror of the Punjab, who has since arrived amongst us. Another ...

... Clevedon, one fourth of the land is spoiled over whole estates by the enormous quantity of hedgerows. The food spoiled by the blackberry bushes, and the ash in this county, taking into account the room they occupy, and the ground they spoil by their drippings ...

... to this, by way of a pleasure trip ? When we get to Calcutta in seven days we may expect Asiatic excursions as plenty as blackberries; but an excursion all round the world, and of a year and a half ! Where on earth are the excursionists to come from? Certainly ...

... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribands. Her Majesty wore round her head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. The Queen held an investiture of the Order of the Bath on Thursday, upon which occasion Lord Broughton received ...

... THE SHEFFIELD MURDER. On Friday evening, the 3d inst., about half-past seven two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom at Eastbank, about a mile and a-half to the south-east of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man almost ...

... would take several shiploads of University phenomena to make half a Disraeli. Gladstonea have always been as plentiful as blackberries in England. Postmasters of outports are now ordered to exhibit in their office windows notices of any alteration of harbour ...

... watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. In this way, chants, both double and single, might become as plentiful as blackberries ; with what good result to the cause of music, either sacred or secular, we are unable to perceive. The inspirations of ...

... and the robin redbreasts are ridiculously comical grotesques. The scenery is at times really exquisite, evecially the Blackberry Brake. There is also a lovely rural' scene, like one of Constable's corn.field's magnified. The I harleckainade illustrates ...

... Mr. Cobden do you mean, sir? Here was a pretty question to ask—' Which Mr. Cobden? As if Cobden, were as plentiful as blackberries. We told him which it was; and he didn't know whether he was at home or not, and seemed very much a. if he didn't care ...

... proclamations against bribery, and oaths to check that and all other improper practices, are as plentiful at an election as blackberries in autumn; parliamentary committees threaten it with punishment, and the awful Speaker frowns his blackest at any attempt ...

... of the book before ! If there had not been another illustration in the world, if testimonials were not as plentiful as blackberries, good taste would have excluded one to manifestly liable to be misunderstood. Among the ballast we may reckon the passages ...