Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody else's in particular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only a department. How she came to be concerned in so many concerns, is a mystery of nature, like the origin of the Poet--or rather of black Topsy. The la...
The raspberry was but little noticed by the ancients. Pliny speaks of a sort of bramble called by the Greeks _Idæus_, from Mount Ida, but he seems to value it but little. He say...
1. Part 1She is neither your partner, nor ours, nor anybody else's in particular. She is in general business, of which matrimony is only a department. How she came to be concerned in so...
3. Part 3Descending to the water's edge, we were shewn an immense mass of uprights--inverted arches of angle-iron--the framework of a hull intended to float 1500 tons of merchandise. Bei...
2. Part 2In ancient times, there was a king named Mansoor, who reigned over Upper Egypt and over the Arabs in both deserts. His capital city was at this place (Silsilis), which he fortif...
4. Part 4When you receive company, your apartment should unite French elegance with English comfort. If not rich, and able to keep many servants, appoint one day in the week to see your...
6. Part 6'Her death,' he wrote, 'has left me alone in the world, laden with years, filled with infirmities, a stranger and without friends.' All those whom he loved had preceded him to t...