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The WORLD. No. IX

... about the Celebration of Eafter} and no wile Man w ill tell me that it is not reafonable to fall out tor the Obfervance April-Fool-Day. Can any Benefits arifing from regulated Calendar make Amends for an Occafion of new Stfts? How many warm Men may relent ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1753
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1491 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Rev John Hudson, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, is presented by that College to the

... daughter after she bad completed het 60th year. April Fool's Day.— Many Antiquarians have puz- zled themselves and their readers with teamed dis- sertatiofts on the origin of the day generally called April Fool's Day. It would much exceed the limits i of ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1815
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3523 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Rev. James Tlioinas Lstwj M. A. late Fellow of Christ's ?? eol- 1..ited, by the Lord Bisliop of Chfkbistl

... con- sumed. The whole amount of produce des- troyed by this calamitous conflagration is esti- mated at £50,000. . . . April Fooling.— On the Ist inst. a girl went into a shop hi Whitehaven, and said a gen- tleman had sent her for some nape seed : and ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1818
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1882 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Poetry

... -SC] AN APRIL FOOL. jec Cs Go look for truth in deism, or sense in absenteeism. c Or discouragement to theism, in a Cambridge school; Ml Court an author for his pence, read Shelley for his sense, je, And dub yourself from hence-forth an April fool! Ma Believe ...

LOVE. (From Hood's IVhims and Oddities.) O Love ! what art thou, I.ove the ace of hearts. Trumping earth's kings

... thing, Making green misses spoil their work school; A melancholy man, cross gartering (irave rii>e-fac'd wisdom made an April fool youngster, tilting at a wedding ring A sinner, sitting on cuttie stool A Ferdinand Something in a hovel, Helping Matilda ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1827
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOVE

... thing, Making green misses spoil their work at school ; A melancholy man, cross-gartering 1 Crave ripe-fac'd wisdom made an April fool 1 A youngster, tilting at a wedding ring 1 A sinner, sitting on: a cuttie stool A Ferdinand Something in a hovel, helping ...

Published: Monday 22 January 1827
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1434 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... altogether well chosen, and might suggest the wits England bestow upon the association missionaries, the fascinating title of April Fools some singular fatality, General Clooney' happened to be association chairman when this embassy extraordinary was proposed ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1828
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4830 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... since resumed their journey. The coachman and guard were slightly wounded. Arm i. Fools—One of those jokes, termed making April fool, was practised with considerable success upon a number of retail brewers of this town on Thursday evening last, at the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1830
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9172 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALL FOOL'S DAY

... earth! Its sedIs have all perished in the schools! I pronounce the LL.D.'s, F.R.S.'s and X.G.'s, And tle unreformed K.P.'s April fools! What are Wellington's that shine 11l liredictioss of a storm ? M'hat are Wynfords wheen they whine O'er the Chancery rcform ...

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... did on tie hinst of' Api i, when at rogui Chitrapside' told him that his shoe string wa4 Untiedi orer to)Isiahse hit clli April fool, has been ill a grefit pasiliwih dile calrlea- turi, and ordered Ihun to hr proscted SC) Yesterday n;v, friend Philili'oi ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1831
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1585 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND NEWSPAPER CHAT

... you April Fool r Tule Lords aire growving wise; they write t00cr surprise, C Tue gravest tragedies, ats lifmuroarus ats Poole ; ii 'Their geniussoars so high, front them ittett Shskspeare fly, q Atid Mlilton's all siy eye~-Ohi, you April Fool!I a Sotme ...