... remains in obscurity that we gladly welcome any addition to our knowledge. Travellers' stories have indeed been plentiful as blackberries, but so many of these have been proved false, so many are semifabulous, that reliable information, however limited its ...

... were about two hundred more in the neighbourhood where they were taken. Specimens of Taiping blasphemy are plentiful as blackberries, and it is passing strange how, in the face of them, any Englishman can imagine that the Rebels are under the influence ...

... accounts relative to Saigon, namely, that constant reference is made to Singapore trade, in which errors are as plentiful as blackberries. The inference drawn from these statements is that no jealousy will be created in the minds of these Chinese colonists ...

... SAMUEL MossmAx. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.—Books on China and the Chinese are now plentiful as blackberries. There are historical works, ponderous and diffuse ; theoretical works, speculative and bewildering; argumentative works ...