Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2Wiley and Putnam, 1839 |
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Pàgina 19
... carried off eight of his sheep and thirteen of his brother's flock , in spite of all their precautions . The Canadian wolf is about the size of a mastiff , in colour of a dirty yellowish brown , with a black stripe along his back , and ...
... carried off eight of his sheep and thirteen of his brother's flock , in spite of all their precautions . The Canadian wolf is about the size of a mastiff , in colour of a dirty yellowish brown , with a black stripe along his back , and ...
Pàgina 20
... carry off the pigs and young cattle . Deer still abound , and venison is common food in the cottages and farmhouses . My guide concluded his account of himself by an eloquent and heartfelt eulogium on his wife , to whom , as he assured ...
... carry off the pigs and young cattle . Deer still abound , and venison is common food in the cottages and farmhouses . My guide concluded his account of himself by an eloquent and heartfelt eulogium on his wife , to whom , as he assured ...
Pàgina 36
... carried backward by associations or recollections of any kind . Horace Walpole said of Italy , that it was " a land in which the memory saw more than the eye , " and in Canada hope must play the part of me . mory . It is all the ...
... carried backward by associations or recollections of any kind . Horace Walpole said of Italy , that it was " a land in which the memory saw more than the eye , " and in Canada hope must play the part of me . mory . It is all the ...
Pàgina 75
... carried me back to Italy and times long past . I felt it all , as people feel things after a sharp fit of indisposition , when the nervous system , languid at once and sensitive , thrills and trembles to every breath of air . As we ...
... carried me back to Italy and times long past . I felt it all , as people feel things after a sharp fit of indisposition , when the nervous system , languid at once and sensitive , thrills and trembles to every breath of air . As we ...
Pàgina 78
... carried on the war with so much talent , courage , and resources , that the British government found it necessary to send a considerable force a . gainst him . General Bradstreet came up here with three thousand men , wasting the lands ...
... carried on the war with so much talent , courage , and resources , that the British government found it necessary to send a considerable force a . gainst him . General Bradstreet came up here with three thousand men , wasting the lands ...
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Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització completa - 1839 |
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització completa - 1838 |
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització de fragments - 1972 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 275 - I" the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Pàgina 93 - You always told us that you would never draw your foot off British ground, but now, father, we see you are drawing back, and we are sorry to see our father doing so without seeing the enemy. We must compare our father's conduct to a fat dog that carries its tail upon its back, but when affrighted, it drops it between its legs and runs off.
Pàgina 93 - You always told us to remain here, and take care of our lands; it made our hearts glad to hear that was your wish. Our great father, the king, is the head, and you represent him: You always told us you would never draw your foot off British ground.
Pàgina 74 - Au Glaize — appear like one continued village for a number of miles, both above and below this place; nor have I ever before beheld such immense fields of corn in any part of America, from Canada to Florida.
Pàgina 176 - The next morning, the father, elated at having gained his end, prepared a repast for his son, and hastened to set it before him. On coming to the door, he was surprised to hear his son talking to himself. He stooped...
Pàgina 187 - With look like patient Job's eschewing evil; With motions graceful as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair...
Pàgina 182 - It is not true!' he shrieked with a loud voice, 'I am not dead, — I was not left on the field: I am here! I live! I move! see me! touch me! I shall again raise my spear in the battle, and sound my drum at the feast!' But no one heeded him; they mistook his voice for the wind rising and whistling among the boughs. He walked to his wigwam, and found his wife tearing her hair, and weeping for his death.
Pàgina 115 - ... projecting into the lake. On the east, the whole sky was flushed with a deep amber glow, fleckered with softest shades of rose-colour — the same intense splendour being reflected in the lake; and upon the extremity of the point, between the glory above and the glory below, stood the little Missionary church, its light spire and belfry defined against the sky. On the opposite side of the heavens hung the moon, waxing paler and paler, and melting away, as it seemed, before the splendour of the...
Pàgina 4 - 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 poultryyard, was at least four feet in length, and glared on me from the rafters above ghastly and horrible. The interior...