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  2. SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

    The much-talked of, long-expected report of the select committee on gaming, has at length been published. The sum and substance of this report may be told in a few ...

    Article : 4,139 words
  3. SANDWICH ISLANDS.

    The correspondence between Lord Geo. Powlett and the Admiralty on the subject of his recent forcible seizure of the Sandwich Islands, disallowed by the British ...

    Article : 996 words
  4. THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—No. 4,

    Of this great pool we have little account and the little we have rests on doubtful authority. So far as we know, he was born at [?], in [?] in ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS.

    John Bull is in money matters a most gullible animal. Indeed, John seems never so happy as when he is being gulled. The Pensylvanian repudiators have ...

    Article : 1,091 words
  6. South Australian Register. Adelaide : Wednesday, November 6,1844.

    MR. Eyre arrived in Town from Moorunde yesterday, and brings despatches and letters from Captain Sturt. The gallant explorer at the date of these ...

    Article : 489 words
  7. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    IN our last, we inserted from the Southern Australian a brief report of the proceedings at the Supreme Court, and accompanied it with a few comments of our own. ...

    Article : 1,919 words
  8. HIS OPINION OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION.

    No sooner are the organs of the brain Quick to receive, and s[?]fast to retain, Best knowledges, but all's laid out upon Retrieving of the curse of Babylon ; ...

    Article : 238 words
  9. ON SNARLING CRITICS.

    The feeblest vermin can destroy As Mire as [?] beasts of prey. And, only with their eyes and breath, Infect and poison men to death: ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. DESCRIPTION OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

    His face is round and decent, As is your dish or platter, On which there grows A thing like a nose ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. IGNORANCE.

    The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire. ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. LAW,

    The law can take a purse in open Court, While it condemns a less delinquent for't. ...

    Article : 17 words
  13. LOVE.

    Love is too great a happiness For wretched mortals to possess; For, could it hold inviolate Against those cruelties of Fate ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. POETRY.

    As wine that with its own weight runs is best. And counted much more noble than the prest; So is that Poetry whose generous stains Flow without servile study, art, or pains. ...

    Article : 33 words
  15. WIT.

    A man of quick and active wit For dudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags to draw in carts, ...

    Article : 26 words
  16. AVARICE,

    In all the world there is no vice Less prove excess than [?] It neither cares for food nor clothing: Nature's content with little, that, with nothing. ...

    Article : 28 words
  17. BREVITY.

    As his a greater mystery, in the art Of painting, to foreshorten any part Than draw it out; so his in brooks the chief Of all perfections to be plain and brief. ...

    Article : 38 words
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