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The Archaeological Society

... first the Cathedral, which he observed,contained within itself two sources of history. In the first place, it marked its own story tlie way in which the stones were put together, and which' would enable them to tell the parts succeeding each other, but in ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3976 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Literature

... and the Priest we shall review shortly. We have, however, great arrear of books upon our table. The First Cousins, or My Own Story. —The moral seems to be that Women need not be inferior. If this to be one of the disgusting George Sand exhibitions of women ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 8365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... publicly met and disposed of. In the different courts of Middlesex, Herts, and Gloucestershire it was pushed as far as possible short ot trial. In every instance the hon. member for West Gloucestershire appears to have endeavoured to induce his accusers to ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 6273 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Paris Chit-chat

... to disengage it from the mud. ll e succeeded in short space of time, and returned high glee, bearing it triumph before him. His terror may be conceived, when, upon reaching the spot he had quitted so short a time before, he found it deserted—not a trace ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Literature

... Emperor Theodosius himself, hastened to visit the cavern of the Seven Sleepers, who bestowed t heir benediction, related their story*, and at the same instant peaceably expired. The origin of this marvellous fable cannot be ascribed to the pious fraud and ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 7538 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Law

... doubt that the plaintiff was entitled to their verdict for year's salary. His lordship having summed up, The jury after a short absence, found a verdict for the defendant. *** [This is a very discreditable expose for the provincial press in general. We ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Literature

... not making up for it by any great wisdom. Adapted, nevertheless, for a reading society. REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Quakerism the Story of my Life. By Lady who for Forty Years was a Member of the Society of Friends. The authoress of this work has no vindictive ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 8783 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ASCENTS OF MONT BLANC

... all was ready to attempt to sleep, the guides lit a fire before us, and I mused myself to sleep talking, listening to the stories still going on around me, watching the flickering flame that lighted up the splendid figures of our guides, who stood round ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2610 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Opinions of the Press

... malice, or any wish to create annoyance, but tbe fact is, that even the hyperbolical conjectures of American irony have fallen short of the truth in this interesting particular. It was calculated that we should realize 2,000,000 dollars, whereas we have got ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3000 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Literature

... tired of the terrible fecundity of the press in re Horace Walpole. His scandals are slipping into history; his dressed-up stories are petrifying into biography; it is impossible to scrutinise such room full of smart fictions. It is quite time that, as ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 7857 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Foreign

... and the biutal assailant of tbe bride. Our readers will remember a visit paid by General Radowitz to Windsor Castle some short time back, when the Times in no measured terms commented upon tbe circumstance, and warned Prince Albert against the dangers ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 5482 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature

... bar dinner, there was Irish barrister who chanced never to have tasted olives—Miss Fathomall removes her hand, bar dinner stories hurt her. Well, Brown, you need not look crossly at me. I know that it i 3 as you say; you have got on very well the world ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 8318 | Page: 4 | Tags: none