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“ Oh, what a noble mind ia here o’erthrown! ”

... homoeopathy ; that dying people communicate sensations to others hundreds of miles away ; that ghosts are as plenty as blackberries ; that black cat is the associated symbol of death, when it walks over a bed ; that people read ‘with the soles of their ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1851
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WE AT TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS OF TUS

... EXHIBITION, (From the Journal of Dfsirm CandidatM for the dispoeal of the surplus of the Exhibition are as plentiful as blackberries. Before we examine any of their claims, will lay down the principle which wo ourselves would follow, if had the surplus ...

Published: Monday 06 October 1851
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BELL’S NEW WEEKLY MESSENGER

... berry which is called the “ white * blackberry'* It is described being, when fully ripe, of a , light greenish brown colour. A friend who is very is very desirous to know if they are red when green, like the black blackberry. What metal is it whose name indicates ...

Published: Sunday 30 November 1851
Newspaper: Bell's New Weekly Messenger
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1825 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HONOURS TO THE

... Reynolds banquet, held on the very day succeeding the real demonstration” at the Rotundo, and when bishops” were as plenty as blackberries at this season, not one of the venerated hierarchy” accepted the invitation to feast at the expense of the member for Dublin ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1851
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1138 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... drops to one fluid ounce of pure cold water makes transparent camphor julep. Are OLD PRIIIND.—To make blackberry vinegar :—Pound two quarts of blackberries in a mortar, add to this one gallon of cold boiled water, and let it stand for forty-eight hours, stirring ...

THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT

... if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Son- nets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries. The celebrated Spontini, the author of La Vestale and Fernand Cortez, has lately died, at Jesi, his native place ...

• AN ELECTION FARCE

... at their leisure. A suitable candidate is not always found at a moment's notice. Fitting men are not always plentiful as blackberries. The choice of a representative seriously concerns a constituency, and should be made with fitting deliberation and care ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1851
Newspaper: Standard of Freedom
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AQUATICS

... honour and notoriety, are preparing for many along pul and 3 strong pull. We shall have chal- lenges as plentiful as blackberries as soon as the great match for the championship is settled, but, of course, that engrosses too much of the pblic attention ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1192 | Page: 6 | Tags: Sports and Games 

joined. He is after describing the chase of a suspicious stranger, which turns out to be a Yankee : THE

... sea. The three first-mentioned had. flourished before the mast; but as in those days, midshipmen were not as plenty as blackberries, and their conduct and qualifications as good and steady seamen recommending them I presume to notice, Captain Twisden ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1851
Newspaper: Weekly Chronicle (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THB LAST OF THE

... letter a thousand miles for a penny, and buy a week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on nmepence halfpenny, a-day, and make artificial ...

Published: Thursday 20 March 1851
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUMMARY OF THE WEEK

... expresses the wants of the people. At this season of the year meetings and important demonstrations begin to grow plentiful as blackberries. The Mansion-house has opened its hospitable dinners to Her Majesty's Ministers, and the result has been a banquet, in ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1851
Newspaper: Standard of Freedom
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1418 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... gross and scandalous trickery, of direct falsehood, and insinuations against private character, were as plentiful as blackberries. Honourable shareholders appeared to revel in the noise and confusion of a Babel of tongues, each of which wagged ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1851
Newspaper: Morning Herald (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1378 | Page: 3 | Tags: none