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Date

June 1880
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North West, England

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Preston, Lancashire, England

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LITERARY SELECTIONS

... I LITERARY SELECTION&. I - ;~scA. BLUZlEa5.-WO may live and learn. -I remember, fifty years since, or more at one of the Lincoln elections, hearing a man in the crowd say to another, speaking of 'the preceding night, We got drunk as Blaizers.1 I never could make out what he meant. Yesterday I was reading Sir Thomas Wyse's lImpression8 ',of Greece, and, speaking of the reverence for St. ...

VARIETIES

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. Courage eonsists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering ?? tr. That is not real benevolonce, which covets the luxury of feeling benevolent rather than the good of others. His faith is exceedingly limited who has no idea of any other miracles than those resorded in the Scriptures-who has no eye for the miracles that aro continually going on within ...

POETRY

... ON, ON FOR THE FUTURE. On, on for the Future ! the Present is thiuo, The Past has gone down to Eternity's soa; 'Tis useless to murmur, 'tis vain to repine, And sigh for the days that have Ion ceasod to be. But, on for the future I aind when ye rook hack On the rocks and the sands, yo hnave toot in your way, Lot theta serve as briflit beacons to lil,'hton your track, And guide ye arigh to a ...