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  2. INTRODUCTION OF FIRE-ARMS IN WAR.

    The invention of gunpowder totally changed the manner of fighting, and,- consequently the military discipline of all Europe. The Spanish were the first who armed part of their foot with ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  3. AGRICULTURE.

    The following very sentible remarks are extracted from a speech made by the Hon. Micah Stirling, at on Agricultural dinner that was given on the occasion of the first Meeting and Cattle Show of an Agricultural Society, which had been ...

    Article : 925 words
  4. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 766 words
  5. LAW OF LIBEL.

    Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in his charge to the Grand Jury at Stafford, delivered last October, spoke as follows:— "It must be left to your own good sense to ...

    Article : 1,364 words
  6. HANDEL WITH ALTERATIONS.

    Whilst Dibdin was pedestrianising in Cornwall he chanced to meet a village choir going one Sunday morning from their own village to a neighbouring parish, to assist their brethren of ...

    Article : 150 words
  7. LIFT'S WEARINESS.

    Many things are tiresome—ball-rooms, where beauty faints to attract attention; theatres, where painted kings, odorous of tobacco and gin, talk fustian in mock heroics; story-tellers, who bore ...

    Article : 70 words
  8. PRINTING.

    Charles the Second's parliament passed an act, that only twenty printers should practise their art in the kingdom. About six shillings current was paid for one and a half hour's reading in ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. A NEAR-ENOUGH WITNESS.

    Speaking of law courts reminds me of a famous witness of the near-enough order—an impracticable fellow, whom no counsel, though of a fortybully power, could ever have brought to specify ...

    Article : 227 words
  10. BUNKUM.

    "Bunkum?" I said," pray, what is that ?" "Did you never hear of Bunkum?" "No, never." "Why you don't mean to say you don't know what that is?" "I do not indeed." "Not ...

    Article : 387 words
  11. THE QUEEN AT TAYMOUM.

    While at Taymouth Castle, Lord Liverpool began to make wry faces the first day of the dinner, at the screpch of the highland music; which, it must be acknowledged, is rather severe for ...

    Article : 242 words
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