... indeed highly lucrative investments, and it was assumed that all railways would pay. Prospectuses appeared as thick as blackberries on a bush, and the shares of new railway Companies were eagerly sought for, while those of the old flourishing Companies ...

... the land of Luther and of Goethe. —Fall Mall Gazette. Honour. —Dishonourable actions are quite as plentiful, no doubt, blackberries upon hedge. Men are not, as a rule, any more strictly honourable than they are moral or religions; but there is this d ...