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To the Editor of the Western Times. St. Mary Church, 1, Park Crescent, 23rd, Jan., 1856. Dear Sir,—-May I request

... published, and addressed to Mr. S. Taylor have selected one false statement, as sample of those which are 'as plenty as blackberries' throughout it I* appears to me you resemble the person described by Solomon Calling E. Ea diey -L^urpSs'L'nol: abuJ m ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1340 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

and Original Designs. four volumes. Vol. 111. London: Nathaniel Cooke. This volume contains the Dunciad ; the ..

... of this city; the first being that of a child, aged 13, who ate a curious mixture of fish, apples, pears, nuts, and blackberries, and became very ill in consequence. Medicine failed, but Mesmerism succeeded. Ths next is the case of Mr. Parker's own ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1854
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1521 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... steaming it.' It is decidedly in bad taste attend the funeral of black friend, and tben inform your friends you have been blackberrying. Witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string ; but a word of kindness seldom spoken in ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1851
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1502 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... Cobden do ?? mean, sir?': Here was a pretty question to ask-, Which Mr. Cobden ? As if- Cobdens ware 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 as if he didn't care ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1859
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1465 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

TO THE REFORMERS OF DEVON

... agree with that the system making oScers, in large U , W j . extravagance. We have Captains of all denominations thick as blackberries, and have a pretty fair sprinkling of generals of all sorts, and admirals of all kinds scattered over the country. Every ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1851
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COUNTRY MARKETS

... litbes, ad taxes upon them. Aain, in partt ei Norolk, Linooloshire, and Scotland, steam- engines ate almnost as plentiful s blackberries; whilst in most otherceonties, theyhave few or noue. In my own, with a million of acres, we have lees than hslf.a-dozen ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1852
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

MR. MECRTS BALANCE SHEET. To the Editor oj the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Sir, —The agricultural world may ..

... horses lit line only ploughing three-fourths of acre. Again, steam-engines Norfolk, Lincoln, and Scotland, as plentiful as blackberries (p. 34) ; and then the erroneous statement that last year he visited Devonshire, and found a recently erected tilery on ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2074 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORTH DEVON

... with ridin against him and assaulting him. The arties were all The complainant was on horseback rode towards him. picking blackberries in the road, and the defendants passing The defence was that “ it was allin fun.” Mr. Shapland appeared for the defen- ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1858
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1930 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PEACE

... defeat the synagogue Satan V* Popes, prelates, parsons, presbyters, and priests —Heaven knows they are as plenty as blackberries —what head do they make against the homines trium literarum? They cannot grumble their pay. Your rector vicar, your sleek ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1859
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2122 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... raisin box, in a plantation. It appeared that on the 14th instant a lad thirteen years of age, named Fowler, was picking blackberries in a plantation belonging to Mr. Garratt, when he saw a box partly buried inthe earth. He took out the box and found something ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1858
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2296 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... around them, like well-drilled rows of charity cbildren out for a holiday walk; sud the grapes too, meorb plentiful than blackberries, hawked ia tbe streets and. old by the cwt. at a less' price than soap or sugar; not to mention peaches plucked for the ...