... our refreshment. The earth, it mast be remembered, produces poisons and medicines as well as fruits; —not only acorns and blackberries but also hemlock, and de a dly n i g ht s h a de, an d belladonna. But thirdly; It is contrary to common sense and common ...

... that picturing the past glories of our boyhood,—but only, perhaps, to be fully appreciated by a London boy— The Land of Blackberries. A word about the title, and we leave the book to the purchaser. Brambles and Bay Leaves seems to us to have a quaint ...

... the Immaculate Conception. Accord- ing to Cardinal Wiseman's own showing, immacu- late persons were as plentiful as blackberries in the later times of Pagan Rome. But to make up for the superhuman excellences of his Christians we have their persecutors ...

... London damsels gathering prim roses or violets on time rising ground about the office of Household IVords, or hunting for blackberries on the site of Exeter Hall, or sitting to rest on the green sward where Drury-lane Theatre now stands. Matylebone was then ...

... London damsels gathering prim rose , or v iolets o n the rising ground about the office of Household Words, or hunting for blackberries on the site of Exeter Hall, or sitting to rest on the green sward where Drury-lane Theatre now stands. Marylehone was then ...

... people have as many advisers as Job, or the hare with many friends ; as for speaking out, stump orators are as thick as blackberries, in Parliement and out of it. No man (still less any woman) believes he can't speak ; and the number who won't are inf ...