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OUR CARPET BAG

... 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 as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on nisepence halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

Published: Sunday 23 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

THE ROMISH CHURCH AND THE Religious Robbery System

... him the last rites of the Church he was deluded to endow! From what we can gather, such cases will be found plentiful as blackberries at Michaelmas. The conduct of the Romish Priest- hood throughout the land (hitherto well concealed) will soon have the ...

Published: Sunday 30 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1544 | Page: 8 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

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 

THEATRES, &c

... difficulty attending it. But supposing that such productions as he requires were plentiful here as they are in France-thick as blackberries, which is by no means the case, how many actors and'actresses have we capable of dashing off a comic character to perfection ...

Published: Sunday 18 May 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2746 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TRADE AND OPINIONS AT Manchester

... chester, but when a general tax instead of a local tax is spoken of to support its continuance, objections rise thick as blackberries, as the feeling is for the Londoners to support the pleasure retreat, or else let it on lease, as suggested, and thus escape ...

Published: Sunday 03 August 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 9 | Tags: Commerce 

LITERATURE

... is one whose bite is mortal), gambling, drinking, ague, fever, starvation, nrid' a thousand other liabilities thick as blackberries there- when you calculate the hardship of incessant toil and wet beds, with bad fare-whenyouaddtothesedangers and miseries ...

Published: Sunday 12 October 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3789 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

APPROACHING CRISIS IN FRANCE

... French Press, scarcely one of the'wortby officiials -iav6. ~ ?? 'huslightest.s'catacity Codjdctis are. as plentiful as blackberries as to how the game will -come off between thie Pe'sident and 1the Chamber.,. The''nine, pins he has set up, the' Pr ...

Published: Sunday 02 November 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE PREMIER'S PLUNDER BOON to Ireland.—Injustice to England

... just pro- portion of debt due to the State ? Nobody in Eng- land is exempt. Distress warrants for poor rates are common as blackberries, we are sorry to say, amongst the hard workers here; why should the lazy, improvident, extravagant, repudiating Irish ...

Published: Sunday 09 November 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE POOR

... hag taken us by surprise. But a few days ago -not a month-we saw the common butterfly glad. somely coquetting among the blackberries on the sunny side th hedge; the bee busily engaged among Autumnal blossoms, as though loath to retire from business-and ...

Published: Sunday 07 December 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 9 | Tags: News