...in our infancy. What says the Nursery Rbyme ? — •' Tender-handed touch a nettle. And it stingy you for your pains : Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Bulwer has truthfully observed, that the most valuable characteristic of fame, is the laborious and...

...harmless." More than twenty years ago we read something like these lines : Softly touch the angry nettle, And It stings you for your pains : Grasp It like a man of mettle. SoR as silk the stem remains. The reader may ask, " Do you design making a charge of plagiarism against...

...insolence with spirit, for the old rhyme will ever be true — " Tender hearted stroke the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Mr. Longmore was just rising from breakfast when I entered their dining room, and was as ever cordially...

...affront: and jealousy injustice.* Verses Written on a Window in Scotland. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'T is the same with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; v But be rough as nutmeg-graters,...

...impressed with a similar idea respecting the action of calomel, that — " Tender handed, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." And having acted upon it, I can boast of having generally obtained the best effects of calomel, without...

...Qrasp it like a man of mettle. And it soft as silk remain». Tls the samo with common natures; Uso them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well." ANTIQUITY OF TOBACCO. — According to the Chronicle of the Quiche tribes of Guatemala, when Jepeu,...

...any one who will resolutely lay hold of it, and examine its claims. " Gently, softly, touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it, like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." It is only necessary to add, that the same general principle seems to be involved in all the forms...

...one who will resolutely lay hold of it, and examine its claims. • " Gently, softly, touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it, like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." It is only necessary to add, that the same general principle seems to be involved in all the forms...

...any one who will resolutely lay hold of it, and examine its claims. " Gently, softly, touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it, like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." It is only necessary to add, that the same general principle seems to be involved in all the forms...

...yielding to the appearance of difficulties. What says the nursery rhyme ? " Gently touch a stinging nettle And it stings you for your pains, Grasp it like a man of mettle, Soft as silk it still remains." "Patience and perseverance would be unnecessary were life exempt from...