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... Falls of Niagara - Last Look - Lord Morpeth ........ CHAPTER XIV . Route from Niagara Falls to Lewiston - Rival Nations - Lake Ontario - Toronto - Churches - Coloured Population - King's College - Union of Roman Catholic and Episcopal ...
... Falls of Niagara - Last Look - Lord Morpeth ........ CHAPTER XIV . Route from Niagara Falls to Lewiston - Rival Nations - Lake Ontario - Toronto - Churches - Coloured Population - King's College - Union of Roman Catholic and Episcopal ...
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... falling Scotchmen in our great towns -— the decreas- ing returns to labour , amidst increasing capital - the frequent reverses of trade , so fatal to steady habits - the intemperance and filth that are settling down as characteristics ...
... falling Scotchmen in our great towns -— the decreas- ing returns to labour , amidst increasing capital - the frequent reverses of trade , so fatal to steady habits - the intemperance and filth that are settling down as characteristics ...
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... falling through the night , but the engine clears its own way before it - all comfortless without , but wrapped up in a great coat and windows closed , all is snug - but for these changes from one car to another about the nervous hour ...
... falling through the night , but the engine clears its own way before it - all comfortless without , but wrapped up in a great coat and windows closed , all is snug - but for these changes from one car to another about the nervous hour ...
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... adorn a tale ? " We sailed by the Hibernia steamer on the 4th February , being a Sabbath morning . The 4th is the regular day of sailing , and the Post - office suffers no delay though it fall on 6 STEAMER AT SEA . the Lord's Day . Strange.
... adorn a tale ? " We sailed by the Hibernia steamer on the 4th February , being a Sabbath morning . The 4th is the regular day of sailing , and the Post - office suffers no delay though it fall on 6 STEAMER AT SEA . the Lord's Day . Strange.
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... fall . But this enforced humility , like hypocrisy , has no graciousness about it ; a depressing and loathsome necessity keeps you down . Is this humiliating condition to last twelve or fifteen days ? I feel sicker at the thought ; yet ...
... fall . But this enforced humility , like hypocrisy , has no graciousness about it ; a depressing and loathsome necessity keeps you down . Is this humiliating condition to last twelve or fifteen days ? I feel sicker at the thought ; yet ...
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Page 191 - Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 276 - With whom he came across the eastern deep, Fills the savannas with his murmurings, And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak. I listen long To his domestic hum, and think I hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts.
Page 262 - We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 54 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 10 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Page 91 - ... idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Page 118 - I emancipate and set free my servant, David Rice, and direct my executors to give him one hundred dollars. I recommend him in the strongest manner to the respect, esteem and confidence, of any community in which he may happen to live. He has been my slave for twenty-four years, during all which time he has been trusted to every extent, and in every respect; my confidence in him has been unbounded; his relation to myself and family has always been such as to afford him daily opportunities to deceive...
Page 212 - I do not know what to make of them ; was there a white man over them with a whip in his hand, all day, why then I should see and understand the cause of their running, and incessant labour; but I cannot comprehend it, Sir; there is something in it, Sir — there is something in it. Great man, Sir, that Jim — great man, Sir, should like to own him, Sir, should like to own him.
Page 302 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Page 91 - You are to consider, that neither myself nor wife is now in the way to do these good offices. In all other respects, I recommend it to you, and have no doubt of your observing the greatest economy and frugality ; as I suppose you know, that I do not get a farthing for my services here, more than my expenses. It becomes necessary, therefore, for me to be saving at home.