... them with singular ability, zeal, discretion, and success. Tbey were ready to bestow upon him compliments plentiful as blackberries ; but when they were asked to put him on such a footing as becomes his tried services and high professional standing, they ...

... PARLIAMENTARY AMENITIES. In these days, when Hand-books are as plentiful | as blackberries, and when there is scarcely a single 1 topic from the peopling of the starry worlds down to ' the last discovery in the mode of cleansing town drains, that is not ...