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    CURIOUS AND EVENTFUL HISTORY.—An officer, well known at Calais and Lille for many yours by the name of Commandant Coulombo[?], or Coulombo[?] [?]mmortal, has just died at the ...

    Article : 2,863 words
  3. Golden Rules.

    Wealth, ambition, and learning, are phantoms of the mind, similar, as to actual contact, to the will-o'-the-wisp, or the rainbow of nature. The avaricious are never rich enough the ambitions ...

    Article : 698 words
  4. The Turf of N. S. Wales.

    In my last article I endeavoured to combat the prevailing opinion that the decline of the Turf is owing to the mismanagement of Stewards and other Race officials. In my present essay, the ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  5. LORD BYRON.

    HIS DAUGHTER.—"What do you think of Ada?" said he, looking earnestly at his daughter's miniature that hung by the side of his writing table. " They tell me she is like me, but she has ...

    Article : 572 words
  6. The Pleasure Hunter.

    I have been used to will, and to do, all my life and never recollect saying I WILL, that I did not Is then the power of volition to fail me only now' when I say I will live? No—no, life is strong ...

    Article : 1,325 words
  7. Matrimonial Biology.

    This is a famous science, but inquires very great skill to practise it. The husband tries it upon the wife, or else the wife (for women generally are more clever nt 'trying it on') tries it ...

    Article : 1,518 words
  8. A Receipt to Make a Kiss.

    From rose-buds yet unblown, whose vernal morn Perfumes the gale unconscious of a thorn, The purest purple take—and steal from May, ...

    Article : 238 words
  9. On Dying for Love.

    To turn stark fools, and subjects fit For sport of boys and rabble wit. Dying for love is a very silly thing. It answers no one good end whatsoever. It is poetical, ...

    Article : 1,648 words
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