May Is Not Must.
SOME well-meaning and not intolerant people oppose the exten- sion of political privileges to Roman Catholics, Jews, or others as the case may be, from a confusion of " may" and......
The Standard Of Public Virtue.
WORDS are but sonorous breath ; yet put a few, the very fewest, into some smart jingle, and they convulse the world. Mr. Dis- raeli called a Conservative Government "an......
Privilege Of Lady-thieves.
THE Standard, touched by the persecution of ladies under a morbid propensity to steal, puts in a word for the whole class. "We have as little compassion as any can have for the......
Qualification Of Colonial Governors. The Other Day, Mr....
remarked that the quarter- deck is not the best school for Governors; on which Sir Robert Peel rejoined, that naval or military service is at least not a dis- q ualification........
Love-letters.
LAWYERS are very severe critics of love-letters. Indeed there is no satisfying them ; as we constantly see in actions for "breach of promise." If the pen of the fair or gallant......
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