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... a shadow. Pleasures do but weaken our minds, and send us for support to fortune, who gives us mioney only as the wages of slavery. Whosoever thinks himself wise enough or virtuous enough is in a fair way never to be either. When we are alone, we have our ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... attainment of Italian unity; Judas Mlaccobzvus, the resisal of Jewish nationality: Abn ham Line in, tie fi'al abolition of slavery; the Caliph Iflroun al Rlasehid, Saracen civilisition: itc. The pre- sent volume discusses the faiilure of thi 5 French R ...

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... coloured girl swallowed a lot of r percussion caps, and its anxious mother's only consolation g Is that since the abolition of slavery it cannot be brought I under the hammer. A man who heard that Eugene Sue wrote in white kid gloves obtained at great expense ...

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... random nbtos on men m~nd eV,, Mnainers, says * Armo,, tho Iterla'ns th egift Of aL inig tj was a badge of liberation; from slavery. Married people (if may beet explain whether it is so nmoc'g the modlerns. b~ Somebody- sto'le ac water-melon from a pateh ...

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... his fist. A New York divorce lawyer advertises: Hymeneal in- compatibilities as specialities delicately adjusted. 'Tie slavery to detain i's hand, after the heart bath fled. A man who married a widow baa invented a device for curing her of eternally ...

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... tic. t articles, the most noticeable of which is one it containing reminiscences of the late George B Thompson, the anti-slavery orator, by his fl j daughter, MIs. Noswvorthy, with a letter from Mir. Thompson himself to Dr. Ilitchman, of 7 this town, ...

Hints for the Household

... our opinion, is of evil tendency; and many a good creature is driven to reckless imrpriety by a natural' distaste for the slavery of thes stopot or the turnspit. MORE. FL~OURISHES FORl FtouNqcgs.-But we are not yet to be wholly independent of foreigners ...

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... hearing now and then a fine emphatic No.' be Os.aAR'a Lassoc IN E COIOMY.- Cmesar, said a planter at! to his negro, when slavery was in vogue in the Southern foe etates of America, climb up that tree and thin out the branches. The negro showed no ...

FESTIVAL OF THE PASSOVER

... How is that possible? they said. That does not sgree with our calculatione. Did not God say to Abraham 'Thy seed will be in slavery 400 years? and there are only 210! Why doat thou awake within us such hopes, the realisation of which lies still in the far ...

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... where it is sought. Our brightest it blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by nneaxpeuted th( Fusuilu is the voluntary slavery whichl leads us to thiiik, hi~ act, and dress, according to the judgment of fools and the se, caprice of coxcomubs. pri A ...

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... coloured child swallowed a lot of percussion cape, and its anxious mother's only consuls. tionI Is that since the abolition of slavery it cannot be brought under the hammer. One dany, at a farm house, a wag saw an old gobbler try. iug to eat the strings of ...

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... frequently happened, the stomach failed to reject the drug, then the accused met the just fate of a guilty person by dying. Slavery, but never in a severe form, prevailed, and to a less extent prevails still. Snakes were looked upon with great sup- erstition ...