Puppet Show Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...to teach persons how to live without it. Some Hope Yet.--The Spanish Ministry accuse Sir H. Lytton Bulwer of all sorts of mean intrigues and profligate conduct. The manner, however, in which he was defended in the House will 6erve to show them.Ajthat he is not quite so " abandoned" as they imagined. m "= MERIT.--A FRAGMENT. Brown.--By the way, what's this I hear abont l.ydia 's going to be married? 't.ou snrely, cannot intend giving her to that insipid-lootingoreatare Lmet here the other day. The girl mi't care a bit about him, I'm certain; and iPRupeerwere alive Mrs. Rtifiect--Now, brother, d.be a little moderate Brown.--Moderate and see my niece sacrificed in: that manner. Why;. the fellow has not' liirlhing. Mr: Rupen--Lydia'8 money Brown.--Lydia's money ought not to be thrown away in paying his debts, which constitute all he can call his own, for, as for education, intellect, or even common understanding Mrt. Rupee.--The gentleman to whom you choose to allude in such terms is a young man of great merit Brown.--Merit Why, he 's a spendthrift, a libertine, and a fool. I should like to know in what his great merit consists. Mrt. Rupee.--Surely you forget, brother, that he is nephew to the Duchess of Fitznoodlehurst..... THE REFORM MOVEMENT. If the people of this country are anxious to have any reforms.brought about, either financial or other, one course is open to them, and that a simple and straightforward one. It is not to riot at Clerkenwell, or bellow at Bethnal Green; it is not to listen to the inflammatory addresses of leaders who first disgrace a cause by their violence, and then ruin it by their audacity. It is, to go to work, and petition Parliament at once in favour of the measures proposed bv the Reform League. This is the honest...