Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence. [1st-7th Ser.]author, 1894 - Birds |
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... erection of an aviary for the friends of his youth , the birds of Canada ; and an ample museum for the preservation , by the art of the taxidermist , of specimens of the Canadian avi - fauna . It may not be out of place to follow this ...
... erection of an aviary for the friends of his youth , the birds of Canada ; and an ample museum for the preservation , by the art of the taxidermist , of specimens of the Canadian avi - fauna . It may not be out of place to follow this ...
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... erection of the projected bridge across the St. Lawrence at or a little higher up than the city , whilst supplying the missing link in that great national work , the Canadian Pacific railway , will remove the disadvantage inflicted . by ...
... erection of the projected bridge across the St. Lawrence at or a little higher up than the city , whilst supplying the missing link in that great national work , the Canadian Pacific railway , will remove the disadvantage inflicted . by ...
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... erected by skilled French engineers , and costing fabulous sums to France ; the present Citadel , a noble structure planned by the French Engineer de Léry , recommended by the Duke of Wellington , was built 1823- 1830. This ...
... erected by skilled French engineers , and costing fabulous sums to France ; the present Citadel , a noble structure planned by the French Engineer de Léry , recommended by the Duke of Wellington , was built 1823- 1830. This ...
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... erected in the upper town market place , and French noblemen and French priests were welcome among us , without the constant fear of the guillotine before their eyes . Quebec was not Cayenne ! One word about another element - a law ...
... erected in the upper town market place , and French noblemen and French priests were welcome among us , without the constant fear of the guillotine before their eyes . Quebec was not Cayenne ! One word about another element - a law ...
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... erected , some old people appeared in earnest conversation ; the respected pastor had rested his telescope on the twig of one of the stunted cedar trees which grow in the crevices of the cape , and was scanning the horizon in the ...
... erected , some old people appeared in earnest conversation ; the respected pastor had rested his telescope on the twig of one of the stunted cedar trees which grow in the crevices of the cape , and was scanning the horizon in the ...
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Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting ... Sir James MacPherson Le Moine No preview available - 2013 |
Maple Leaves, Volume 4 J. M. (James MacPherson) LeMoine, Sir,James MacPherson Le Moine, Sir No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 92 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Page 426 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 286 - The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.
Page 409 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 86 - Wolfe demanded, like a man roused from sleep. " The enemy, sir. Egad, they give way everywhere...
Page 379 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 239 - On Christmas eve the bells were rung, On Christmas eve the mass was sung: * That only night in all the year Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear.
Page 158 - The French dominion is a memory of the past ; and when we evoke its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves in strange, romantic guise. Again their ghostly camp-fires seem to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest, mingled with wild forms of savage warriors, knit in close fellowship on the same stern errand.
Page 286 - THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 374 - Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die: ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then...