Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1880 |
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Page 13
... appeared to gradually lose our- selves in an endless path of the prime- val forest , looking wet and miserable as the rain soaked through the foliage ; and the monotonous clipper - clap , clap- per - clip of the wheels , as they revolve ...
... appeared to gradually lose our- selves in an endless path of the prime- val forest , looking wet and miserable as the rain soaked through the foliage ; and the monotonous clipper - clap , clap- per - clip of the wheels , as they revolve ...
Page 14
... appearance of com- fort and growing importance in the more pretentious dwellings and out- houses on them . Here also the soil is of a far more inviting appearance , and the greater part of that rocky , un- favourable land has gradually ...
... appearance of com- fort and growing importance in the more pretentious dwellings and out- houses on them . Here also the soil is of a far more inviting appearance , and the greater part of that rocky , un- favourable land has gradually ...
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... appearance . At last he came home with the joy- ful news that he had got Mr. Ford a six months ' engagement at a place called Carthage , ' in another part of the township . The salary was four hundred dollars a year , but the neigh ...
... appearance . At last he came home with the joy- ful news that he had got Mr. Ford a six months ' engagement at a place called Carthage , ' in another part of the township . The salary was four hundred dollars a year , but the neigh ...
Page 47
... appeared more than once in the week driving out with Dr. Field ; never once was she seen with her husband , who even walked to church by him- self , his shabby coat ill - matching his pretty wife's velvet and lace . In the evening she ...
... appeared more than once in the week driving out with Dr. Field ; never once was she seen with her husband , who even walked to church by him- self , his shabby coat ill - matching his pretty wife's velvet and lace . In the evening she ...
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... appearance was most ludicrous . One saw before him what appeared to 6 " be a bear with an Indian's body . All the men had ' coup sticks ' on their persons . A'coup stick ' is a flexible stick covered with buffalo hide , at the end of ...
... appearance was most ludicrous . One saw before him what appeared to 6 " be a bear with an Indian's body . All the men had ' coup sticks ' on their persons . A'coup stick ' is a flexible stick covered with buffalo hide , at the end of ...
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Page 584 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 583 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 274 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 386 - To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature, but his Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England ; and causes which concern the life or inheritance or goods or fortunes of his subjects are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it...
Page 473 - Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended.
Page 393 - Canada be vested in and exercisable by the governor general with the advice or with the advice and consent of or in conjunction with the Queen's Privy Council for Canada or any members thereof or by the governor general individually, as the case requires...
Page 200 - And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Page 588 - The general end, therefore, of all the book, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured •with an historic»!
Page 391 - There is this reserve, however, that in cases of concurrent authority, where the laws of the States and of the Union are in direct and manifest collision on the same subject, those of the Union being "the supreme law of the land," are of paramount authority, and the State laws, so far, and so far only, as such incompatibility exists, must necessarily yield.
Page 393 - Governors of those Provinces, with the Advice, or with the Advice and Consent, of the respective Executive Councils thereof, or in conjunction with those Councils, or with any Number of Members thereof, or by those Governors or Lieutenant-Governors individually, shall, as far as the same continue in existence and capable of being exercised after the Union...