Speeches and Addresses of the Right Honourable Frederick Temple Hamilton, Earl of DufferinJ. Murray, 1882 - 304 pàgines |
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Pàgina 287 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me, and on which I have unwillingly trespassed so long.
Pàgina 186 - Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly two thousand tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches that wound endlessly in and out of a network of islands, promontories and peninsulas for thousands of miles, unruffled by the slightest swell from the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur and beauty.
Pàgina 33 - May all love, His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow Thee, The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God's love set Thee at his side again ! THE COMING OF ARTHUR.
Pàgina 233 - West, and learnt as by an unexpected revelation that her historical territories of the Canadas, her eastern seaboards of New Brunswick, Labrador, and Nova Scotia, her Laurentian lakes and valleys, corn lands and pastures, though themselves more extensive than half a dozen European kingdoms...
Pàgina 211 - Indians to the level Mr. Duncan has taught us they can be brought, and consider what an enormous amount of vital power you will have added to your present strength.
Pàgina 288 - ... simple tourist, has been miserably marred and defeated by the inconvenience and annoyance he has experienced at the hands of the various squatting interests that have taken possession of every point of vantage at the Falls ; who tax the pockets and irritate the nerves of visitors...
Pàgina 191 - Union, of the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains, and from such point as may be selected, east of the Rocky Mountains, towards the Pacific, to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada ; and further, to secure the completion of such railway within ten years from the date of the Union.
Pàgina 235 - ... is in itself one of nature's most delightful miracles, so beautiful and varied are its rocky banks, its tufted islands, — so broad, so deep, so fervid, is the volume of its waters, the extent of their lake-like expansions, and the tremendous power of their rapids. " At last let us suppose we have landed our traveller at the town of Winnipeg, the half-way house of the continent, the capital of the Prairie Province, and I trust the future ' umbilicus ' of the Dominion. Having had so much of water,...
Pàgina 280 - Love your country, believe in her, honour her, work for her, live for her, die for her. (Tremendous applause.) Never has any people been endowed with a nobler birth-right, or blessed with prospects of a fairer future. Whatever gift God has given to man is to be found within the borders of your ample territories; and in return the only obligation laid upon you is ' to go forth and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Pàgina 161 - Yet, so far from the gift of autonomy having brought about any divergence of aim or aspiration on either side, every reader of our annals must be aware that the sentiments of Canada towards Great Britain are infinitely more friendly now than in those earlier days when the political intercourse of the two countries was disturbed and complicated by an excessive and untoward tutelage ; that never was Canada more united than at present in sympathy of purpose and unity of interest with the mother country,...