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  2. THE EDITORS' PORTFOLIO.

    Sir,—la answer to your querist, "Orientalis," I beg leave to state my opinion, that the first language was the gift of God toman, and tint it still exists in the Chinese. Now, though lam not so conversant ...

    Article : 763 words
  3. THE LAST WORDS OF A RESPECTABLE MAN.

    Such were the last words of one, universally respected, whose memory will ever be cherished by his inconsolable relations. A rich mm dying called fait son. ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. NOBODY WOULD KNOW IT!

    How much insult, injury—how many hard words, fierce threats,—say, how many tweakings of the nose might be borne by some forgiving souls, if nobody would know it! What a balm, a salve, a plaster to ...

    Article : 113 words
  5. THE BRIDE'S MISERIES A WEEK BEFORE MARRIAGE.

    That week I never shall forget—The fuss, the work, and bother When ribbons, laces, gauze and net Were toss'd on one another. ...

    Article : 379 words
  6. ODE TO NOTHING.

    Mysterious Nothing, how shall I define. Thy shapeless. baseless, placeless emptiness? Nor form, nor colour, sound. nor sice, are thine, Nor weeds, nor fingers, can thy void express. ...

    Article : 104 words
  7. HOW TO KEEP OFF THE GOUT.

    The annual dinner given to Mr Jonas Webb, of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, after the letting of his pure Southdown tups, took place in August, at which Viscount Torrington, the Hon. and Rev. H. ...

    Article : 469 words
  8. SONG OF THE WAVES.

    When the sky is drear as night, Aud the winds with fury roar. We come in our giant might To lash the trembling shore. ...

    Article : 353 words
  9. WHAT MAKES A GENTLEMAN?

    More than one correspondent asks us, "What makes a gentleman?" We cannot answer the inquiry in a word. A gentleman is sooner and mote easily known than described. Nature must do ...

    Article : 569 words
  10. BARYLONIAN BRICKS.

    The Rev. Dr. E. Hincks, in a letter read before the Royal Society of Literature on the 11th Aug., says:— "I have ascertained beyond all doubt the nature of the inseription on Babylonian bricks. It ...

    Article : 624 words
  11. BRIDAL SCOUTING HYMN.

    O joy, 'tis the dsy of my marriage, With rapture I nearly could shoot. When I think of the beautiful carriage. And all the dear friends Vie cut out. ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. FOOTMAN'S CALVES.

    A friend of the authors, who once lived in one of the leading squares at the West-end, had occasion to hire a new footman. The man arrived; but for the two or three first days was absent from his post ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.

    No nation has been great or prosperous that did not honour an idea. The power and happiness of every nation have been in proportion to the purity and elevation of the idea it has honoured; The idea ...

    Article : 519 words
  14. WAVES : THEIR MOTION, VELOCITY, AND MAGNITUDE.

    When the surface of water is agitated by a storm, it is difficult to recognise, in its tumultous tossings, any semblance of order, law, or definite form which the mind can embrace so as adeauatelv to conceive ...

    Article : 952 words
  15. THE PRIESTHOOD OF LETTERS.

    No net belonging to the condition of modern society is really so momentous, as that which now comes before us as the result of this brief retrospect. The stream of time in rolling on has so shifted the ...

    Article : 538 words
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