The
ventriloquist, therefore, might avail himself of this principle, and
choose an apartment in which the reverberations from its different sides
multiply the directions of the sounds which he utters, and thus facilitate
his purpose of directing the imagination of his audience to the object
from which he wishes these sounds to be thought to proceed.
_Quarterly Review._
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THE GATHERER.
A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.
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EPITAPH ON STERNE.
How often wrongs our nomenclature,
How our names differ from our nature,
'Tis easy to discern:
"Here lies the quintessence of wit,
For mirth and humour none so fit,
And yet men call him--Stern--e!"
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LADIES FORMERLY IN PARLIAMENT.
(_For the Mirror._)
Gurdon, in his _Antiquities of Parliaments_, says, "The ladies of
birth and quality sat in council with the Saxon Wita's." "The Abbess Hilda
(says Bede,) presided in an ecclesiastical synod."
"In Wighfred's great council at Beconceld, A.D. 694, the abbesses sat and
deliberated, and five of them signed the decrees of that council along
with the king, bishops, and nobles."
"King Edgar's charter to the Abbey of Crowland, A.D. 961, was with the
consent of the nobles and abbesses, who subscribed the charter."
"In Henry the Third's and Edward the First's time, four abbesses were
summoned to parliament, viz.
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