Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du CanadaRoyal Society of Canada., 1900 - Humanities |
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... interest to all Canadians : " Dear Sir John Bourinot , " Of the importance of the preservation of the ancient fortress of Louisbourg , there is no need to write to a historian born in Cape Breton like yourself . It is the most ...
... interest to all Canadians : " Dear Sir John Bourinot , " Of the importance of the preservation of the ancient fortress of Louisbourg , there is no need to write to a historian born in Cape Breton like yourself . It is the most ...
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... interest . On that occasion Lord Lorne referred to the objects of the new Society in words which the Council may be allowed PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 XV Decease of Fellows-Sir John William Dawson and James David Edgar (with portraits)
... interest . On that occasion Lord Lorne referred to the objects of the new Society in words which the Council may be allowed PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 XV Decease of Fellows-Sir John William Dawson and James David Edgar (with portraits)
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... able to invest the most abstruse scientific subject with deep interest and make it intelligible to the most ordinary reader . R Proc . , 1900. B. For fifteen years he never failed to attend the meetings of PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 XIX.
... able to invest the most abstruse scientific subject with deep interest and make it intelligible to the most ordinary reader . R Proc . , 1900. B. For fifteen years he never failed to attend the meetings of PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 XIX.
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... interests of Canada and its reputation before the world . " We should prove ourselves " first unselfish and zealous ... interest . Although engaged in the practice of law , and in the absorb- ing profession of politics , he found in the ...
... interests of Canada and its reputation before the world . " We should prove ourselves " first unselfish and zealous ... interest . Although engaged in the practice of law , and in the absorb- ing profession of politics , he found in the ...
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... interests , it is desirable and necessary to take effective action and pro- vide without loss of time a fireproof isolated building for the security of the present collection of specimens . At the same time to have in view the extension ...
... interests , it is desirable and necessary to take effective action and pro- vide without loss of time a fireproof isolated building for the security of the present collection of specimens . At the same time to have in view the extension ...
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Page 25 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 24 - A CES CAUSES, et autres à ce nous mouvant, de l'avis de notre Conseil et de notre certaine science...
Page xxxviii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page xlix - Act, shall, upon being printed and published or reprinted and rppublished in Canada, be entitled to copyright under this Act ; but nothing in this Act shall be held to prohibit the importation from the United Kingdom of copies of such works legally printed there.
Page 193 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers : it being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which...
Page 83 - Louis , par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre , à tous présens et à venir, salut.
Page 57 - Kingston, addressing himself to the Clerk (who standing up, pointed to him and then sat down), proposed to the House for their Speaker, the...
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Page 31 - But to return to the chateau : it is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline kind, called here the cat-a-mountain, and by some the American tiger, or panther, which it more resembles. This one, which had been killed in its attack on the fold or...
Page 23 - They knew that there was a book which taught them there was a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak.