Congress: retrospect

Quarterly Retrospect

Courts of Law were sitting; when every one was living at the highest tension of his life, whether that were of business or pleasure ; the Association suffered less than might have been anticipated. Nay, more; notwithstanding the difficulties it had to contend with, it achieved a splendid success. The great evening reception of the Members, in the Palace of Westminster, was a unique event in the...

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ness or imperfectness of several of the most important crops, the dearness of food, the disturbances in the labour market, and the suffei*ings in several localities arising from this source, altogether would have formed a sad and depressing picture, from which little consolation could have been obtained. When, however, we turn from the vague ideas formed from general observatio n to the precise...

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" Doubtless," quoth the author of'Hudibras,' "the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat." Is not this, in fact, the true philosophy of that dallying with the pseudo-marvellous which of late has been so much in vogue ? Credulity, indeed, as Dean Swift happily remarked, is a much more peaceful possession of the mind than Curiosity. It might have been supposed that, after the many expo...

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January, 1861. " If this city, or the suburbs of the same, do afford any young gentle" man, of the first, second, or third head, more or less, whose friends are "but lately deceased, and whose lands are but now come into his hands, " that (to be as exactly qualified as the best of our ordinary gallants " are) is affected to entertain the most gentleman-like use of tobacco; " as first, to give i...