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LETTER VI

... in the worldi I would not tell you on compulsion. GiVe you a reawoa on eormpulsio! If reasotns ?? were as plenty as blackberries, .1 would CC give no man a reason upon compulsiob, CI t! The time may 6omne, Sir, When, not- Withstafiding. what your ...

SUMMARY OF POLITICS

... round in heface of the Ispeaker, who should it be .bnt Epliraim Jenkinson, who had formerly cheated him out of his horse Blackberry, at the fair, and who repeated, upon all such oc- casions, a set speech about cosmogony, which -latter habit one cannot ...

THE MORNING CHRONICLE

... on something more like equal terms. He still pro- El fesses, with Sir John Falstaffl If reasons were as in plenty as blackberries, he would not give them upon SC compulsion ; and he also professes as strong a dislike |in to the task of answering questions ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1817
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2412 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

... Hlonoarable atid Learned Frieind had asked, how could v lIe give Orstatices iiearer thati those:? if reasons were as plenty as blackberries lie would give none, because, forsootit, Ito Records n Soere kept. But was tlhis an answer ? was it tiot the fact that ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1823
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 22376 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MIRACLES

... MIRACLES. Asplentiy as blackberries.-FALSTAFF in 1. Henry IV. Now that MIRACLES, like reasons (and very un- like any thing of the sort) are plenty as blackberries, no one expresses the least surprise at passing events, however strange, and above ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1823
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 3476 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

UNPAID MAGISTRACY

... good thing) that power is placed in so many hands-that there are so many Magistrates, that you may pick them up like blackberries by the road side; that they are a fruit which grows, as it were, on every thorn-but as things are ordered, we take that ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1823
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 1695 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NO POPERY MEETING AT EDMONTON

... s of choice. UAJtETABLE SuipaasrsrsoN.-Th/e Sherbornse Mercueryt says, a sputetis of blight or grub has settled onl the blackberry leaves, gris'wing theni Insa serpentine manner,so that the dead fihre shows ?? the remaining green. It will hardly be credited ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1825
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3481 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CONSULTATION ON THE OLD LADY

... Doctor. DOCTor, ATACCULLOCH I' g. ' - ye no reason, when I ha' the foc: an reasons, as Fistat says, were as plenty as blackberries , e,,ode, ve'll no get a reasonI from me, while 1 lha'thefoc. DocoTo pp- . But, let us; lbenJ have this fact. _,AuL .F ...

NEWSPAPER CHAT

... vales end woods of Somersetshire; where Falstaff doubtless originated his happy thought of reasons being as plenty as blackberries ;-for never did I behold such lavish profusion of fruit, -as that of our hedgerows and copse woods this summer. The, present ...

Published: Sunday 18 September 1825
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5261 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER

... from the Morning Chronicle. Of a verity, we must hot look for figs from brambles. The specimens before us are of the true blackberry order, N 0 T A B I L I A. We have been vastly edified by a Bow street Report, setting forth the method of instructing persons ...

Published: Sunday 22 June 1828
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5641 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1831

... corrupt Candidate,' forsooth, a san like his fathers before him . Bribery and corruption, we doubt not, are plentiful as blackberries in London ; but her citizens of credit and renown, during times of political ferment, in the exercise of their elective ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1831
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 2993 | Page: 2 | Tags: News