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  2. PICKINGS FROM OUR PORTFOLIO. WATER: AN ALLEGORY.

    In one of the American papers we find the following pretty allegory. The writer is discoursing on the Croton aqueduct of New York, and says, "I find it not easy to come away from that simple ...

    Article : 622 words
  3. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.

    All men (says Vattel) ought to find on earth the things they stand in need of. In the primitive state of communion, they took them wherever they happened to meet with them, if another had not before ...

    Article : 321 words
  4. NATURAL LOGICIANS.

    Some of the arguments of the Kafirs and the Fingoes evince a singular disposition to subtle reasoning, and prove how hazardous a task is undertaken by those who endeavour to bring these poor ...

    Article : 698 words
  5. EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS ON CIVILIZATION.

    Marvellous as is the change which has been wrought in the condition of mankind by the agency of the printing-press, not less marvellous will be the result of railways, when they shall emerge from ...

    Article : 225 words
  6. SOUTHEY'S ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF.

    Me judice, I am a good poet, but a better historian; because though I read other poets and am humbled, I read other historians with a very different feeling. They who have talents want industry ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ALLEGORY.

    A humming-bird once met a butterfly, and being pleased with the beauty of its person and glory of its wings, made an offer of perpetual friendship. "I cannot think of it," was the reply, "as you once ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. FILIAL LOVE.

    Lamprocles, the eldest son of Socrates, fell into a violent passion with his mother. Socrates was a witness to this shameful behaviour, and attempted the correction of it in the following gentle and ...

    Article : 300 words
  9. MAKING A GAIN OF GODLINESS.

    In confirmation of the remark "that charity is now-a-days going into partnership with commerce, and usurping the province and profits of trade," I beg to mention a circumstance which occurred, not ...

    Article : 303 words
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