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EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... PUNCiLi THE BENEFIT OF THE BUDGET. The duty on timber abolished, Will do the poor builders great good; Hurrah for the difference demolished 'Twixt wine in the bottle and wood! e Hurrah for the sheer abolition On pepper, ye grocers, of due! How much we ...

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... re Laurent takes up a chair, and striking as ill-aimed blow at her head, fells her to the gi ound, The concubine of Marat stamps upon her, treuiblinig with fury. At the tumult of the scene, at the cl ies of the two women, the inhabitants of the next houses ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Longmans. THEoLoey.-' Thoughts on the Future of the Human Race.' By William Ellis. (Crown 8vo, pp. xvi, 281.) Smith.-' Your Duty Mine. Duties of Wives and Husbands, Children and Parents, Servants and Masters.' By James Erasmus Philipps, M.A., Vicar of Warminster ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... and important points. He considered it his duty to ascertain that the officers were practically acquainted with the routine of drill. He examined them closely as to their knowledge of this part of their duty, and may be quoted as the first inspecting ...

LITERATURE

... suflerisg, as such; and foolishlyto hope that good may be brought by Ileeven out of all on which Hbavey itself has set tlie stamp of evil, that we may avoid it,-that they accept pain ind defeat as if these were their appointed portion ; never scoderstanding ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Warder on such days as it is his turn to conduct visitors, entirely stopped the vexatious system of fees. So greatly has the abolition of fees increased the number of visitors, that for several years they have averaged 1,000 persens a week, and since the new ...