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... tory of the Anglo Saxons. This gentleman, who re. ceived three hundred a year from government as a literary pension, wrote the third veonme of his Sacred Histor of the World upon paper which did not cost him a faos thing. The copy consited of torn and ...
... THE SCRA.PBOOK COLUP Art EAGIR AT FAULT. -Tn company with af Captain Flinders hid landed on an uinihhabited islod and had captuered a snake, which he was toi a indj ship for the benefit of the naturalist 'ile a tI gaged, an eagle, with fierce a3peot and ...
... the noise of the fianes drowns that of tbe torrents, and as tbegreat stem. joints burst, from the expansion of the coafined air, the report is as that of a salvo from a park ot artillery. At Doujling the blaze is visible,- and the deadened report of the ...
... specialty Is before you; elI the world seems circumscribed to scrip and.tbebudget.- In fine, whatever the-calling, let men 117tfitlvata that calling, and they are as rranow.mlnded a e Chinese when they place on the- map of the world the Oelestial emplre; with ...
... I SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. A MISTARF ABOUT A PASSPORT. - I spread the document before him on the table; he bent down and examined it curiously, as an antiquary ever a worm- eaten manuscript, but with a look of utter bewilder- ment, for he had never before ...
... to myself, if men will not put up with trifling annoyances, but resolve to fret and fume and resent them, they must expect from parties as meddlesome as themselves, but with greater power, for. midable injuries, and, it may be, ruin. Let a man once acquire ...
... ojestojn, and are quite unable to account for it -Thy- never undress at night; 'they untie their thin -nattress- from its silken cover, draw it out from-its place -agnt the wall and roll themselves 'up -in the wadded=quilt 'which ferms their blanket. The only ...
... I TIHE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. Tinsl GBV T or EDINBUBGE AND LONDON SINC Mral AYBICA~NV WAB.-Of both Edinburgh and Lon- don at that period, we may note how far either was as yet from n1e present size. Sir Walter Scott, where in Guy Maunuerhj'g he treats of ...
... r ~ _ THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUM A Wowi o01 Two pow Ltnmms' HOOars.-The ho is considered the most monstrous enormnity that e0et suade its appearance in the world of fashion. W eer fess we cannot think se. We think the notion ori ineo in a mistake-in a confusion ...
... :- better resting place, when 'me oiu down weary from the tasks and troubles of thepre sentlife, could not be well imagined. Iu s perpeurer solitude, never profaned by the noisy feet of its busy world, draped alternately with snow aleese and blooming ...
... | THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUo[N SINGLE ILUE IN FRANOEO-Two peoples are to h seen in the towns of France, the one clad in cloth, that's man; the other, in wretched printed cajic, that's woman. The one-we will take the lowest i, bourer-the worst paid, the hodosa ...
... I THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. TmE EN ?? DE-MOCRAcY.-Where does it begin) Where does it end ? By what visible signs is it dis- tinguished from the other elements of English so- cieiy? No onecan tell; but thisisoflittle consequence; though difflculrl to definle ...