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Page 420 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
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Page 279 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 453 - ... and to bring them before the reader as they actually lived, labored, and struggled — as they studied and wrote, and as they amused themselves. In carrying out this plan, the myths, with which the history of all lands begins, will not be overlooked, though these will be carefully distinguished from the actual history, so far as the labors of the accepted historical authorities have resulted in definite conclusions.
Page 456 - Nelson, and the Naval Supremacy of England. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. Gustavus Adolphus, and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence. By CRL FLETCHER, MA, late Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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Page 290 - But this is not a time," — he started up, And smote his breast with wo-denouncing hand — " This is no time to fill the joyous cup ! The Mammoth comes — the foe — the Monster Brandt ! With all his howling desolating band ; These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land.
Page 456 - MA, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Cicero, and the Fall of the Roman Republic. By JL STRACHAN DAVIDSON, MA, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Abraham Lincoln, and the Downfall of American Slavery. By NOAH BROOKS.