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    even him in higher station , who screens the informer and grants him a pension from the public purse , and hangs the deluded victim of his confidence ; or again , to the neighbouring hierarchy , which in the possession of millions of undeserved wealth , sends its subordinates to England to supply their wants : let every grade be properly classified . We may soften some cases and aggravate others ; we may say , Knights of the nimble finger , ' or' Distributors of hoarded wealth ; ' but till our limited nomenclatures shall be copiously enlarged , the word thieves may be considered as exactly appropriate to all . 5 th , * In the garden /

    Is this exactly correct ? We say , and properly , in a well or in a snuff-box ; but what is a garden ? A surface only , and then comes the incongruity . We don ' t say a ship rides gallantly in the waves , nor a forest spreads its foliage in a mountain ; why , then , should we say a man works in a garden ? Would not on the waves , on the mountain , and on the garden , be all fair and straightforward analogy ? But , on the other hand , we don ' t say a village on the vallev , nor a town on Dorsetshire . How , then , shall we

    reconcile these discrepancies ? Should it be said , that what is low or inclosed requires the term in , and what is elevated or open the word on ; then what a contradiction remains to say in a district , or in a county . These niceties of speech may be intelligible and familiar to us , but how perplexing must they be to foreigners in learning our idioms ! Let the learned decide , or futurity must take it , like ourselves , as cvistom dictates . 6 th . « Mr . Myth ' s . '

    You ' re sure it was Mister Blyth ' s ; then , of course , it could not be the widow ' s , nor the doctor ' s , nor the baronet ' s ; one can ' t be too perspicuous in such affairs . And then , again , how lamentable that the owner of such a pretty and euphonical cognomen could not escape the vulgar attack . One might have supposed that the amenity of feeling conveyed by this melodious and heart-soothing designation , should be some security , some charm , in preference to the harsh , dissonant , and unwelcome sounds of Shufflebottom , Grouta g e , Hogsflesh , and many others ; but no , refinement advances slowly , and it is much to be feared it will be long ere these distinctions shall have any influence on the nightly depredator .

    7 th . Garden : In our worst calamities , we are seldom without some alleviation . As the Dutchman said when he broke his leg , 'thank Heaven that it was not both ; ' so , in this case , a lesser evil probably prevented a greater . The thieves got into or upon the garden , — granted ; but as no possible inference can be drawn that they visited any other part of the premises , it is fair to suppose that they were diverted from any other attempt ; and as conciseness in narration is a beauty , let thkt pass without farther comment .

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    496 Mr . Blyth ' s Garden .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/36/