... Nicholas, says, or rather insinuates, De Custine, and now sonse other De Custine will supply you with reasons plentiful as blackberries (in their season) why Alexander the Second has paid the same compliment to Nicholas. Meanwhile, the question under discussion ...

... moment is,— mediocrity, the of one pre-eminent commanding governing mind: have statesmen and politicians as plentiful as blackberries,” but then they are of an inferior second-rate class: Since the days of . Napoleon, and the decease of our own great Duke ...