... masterpiece of Vauban—is not work wbich should make Englishmen tremble for the future. France may construct forts as plentiful blackberries along its coasts; but there is great truth in some familiar lines about Britannia needing no bulwarks, and “no towers along ...

... It is well known that since the advent of the present Government to power, the applications for places were as plenty as blackberries in autumn, whilst the places have been so very few and far between, as compared with former times, that hundreds of expectants ...

... that the Tories round Lord Eglintoun never lose an opportunity of asserting that false oaths in Ireland are as plenty as blackberries.— The Irish peasantry, they say, between their poverty and their popery, are ready moment’s notice to take or violate the ...