[1]Seepage 19, (Addition,) for a poetical version of this maxim.
[1]Seepage 19, (Addition,) for a poetical version of this maxim.
[2]Any one wishing to observe this great lesson to all mankind set forth by the leading journal of Europe, has only to look at the little vignette at the top of the leading article of the "Times."
[2]Any one wishing to observe this great lesson to all mankind set forth by the leading journal of Europe, has only to look at the little vignette at the top of the leading article of the "Times."
[3]Notwithstanding the "pretty considerable declension" of mercantile integrity, the character of the British merchant, both at home and abroad, still maintains its ascendency, and there are yet thousands of "merchant princes" who fully sustain the honour and glory of our native land. This satire is launched against the "cutting" commercials of the age.
[3]Notwithstanding the "pretty considerable declension" of mercantile integrity, the character of the British merchant, both at home and abroad, still maintains its ascendency, and there are yet thousands of "merchant princes" who fully sustain the honour and glory of our native land. This satire is launched against the "cutting" commercials of the age.
[4]Whatever may be said of the mode of collecting tithes, nothing can be said against the "right of tithe." The clergy are the greatest sufferers, and no consummation is more devoutly to be wished than an equitable adjustment. As things are at present, the clergy do not get half their dues, and these are obtained in a manner well calculated to keep up the idea of a certain person shearing the hogs, "great cry and little wool."
[4]Whatever may be said of the mode of collecting tithes, nothing can be said against the "right of tithe." The clergy are the greatest sufferers, and no consummation is more devoutly to be wished than an equitable adjustment. As things are at present, the clergy do not get half their dues, and these are obtained in a manner well calculated to keep up the idea of a certain person shearing the hogs, "great cry and little wool."
[5]I can't make wriggle rhyme to fiddle. I have sent it to the prince of wrigglers, Lord B——, and to the prince of fiddlers, Mr. P—, but they refer me to Mr. Wordsworth.—T. W.
[5]I can't make wriggle rhyme to fiddle. I have sent it to the prince of wrigglers, Lord B——, and to the prince of fiddlers, Mr. P—, but they refer me to Mr. Wordsworth.—T. W.
[6]A favourite maxim with a certain reverend city orator, formerly a "grocer," and still a "grosser" man than his neighbours.
[6]A favourite maxim with a certain reverend city orator, formerly a "grocer," and still a "grosser" man than his neighbours.
[7]These loans are of course fictitious, but their signatures may be valuable to get clear out.
[7]These loans are of course fictitious, but their signatures may be valuable to get clear out.
[8]Sir Walter Scott, in one of his walks, found a turnip, resembling in some degree the bumble-head of a Scotch feelosopher. He made a cast of it, and sent it to the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, who pronounced a long dissertation upon it, and gave the moral and intellectual qualities with extraordinarycorrectness.
[8]Sir Walter Scott, in one of his walks, found a turnip, resembling in some degree the bumble-head of a Scotch feelosopher. He made a cast of it, and sent it to the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, who pronounced a long dissertation upon it, and gave the moral and intellectual qualities with extraordinarycorrectness.
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