... has, of course, been received as authentic. Proofs of a certain kind, in favour of miraculous charms, are as numerous as blackberries. After a super- stitious ceremony, the thing wished-for happens to occur, and it would, otherwise, have taken place, but ...

... will reward those who give it a careful perusal. At time when works referring to the lives of eminent men are plentiful as blackberries in autumn, seems necessary to say that there are biographies and biographies. There are writers, and not a few of them ...