British Colonies in North America: Canada

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Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1847 - 252 стор.

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Сторінка 3 - Not such as Europe breeds In her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes Its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last" In 1728 he married Anne, the eldest daughter of Mr.
Сторінка 2 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great Inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Сторінка 64 - Britain; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
Сторінка 224 - The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Сторінка 57 - The wealth of his tribe consisted in buffalo skins ; their weapons were axes of steel, — a proof of commerce with Europeans. "Thus had our travellers descended below the entrance of the Arkansas, to the genial climes that have almost no winter but rains, beyond the bound of the Huron and Algonquin languages, to the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico, and to tribes of Indians that had obtained .European arms by traffic with Spaniards or with Virginia.
Сторінка 159 - In several instances, a dam not more than twentyfour feet high, and 180 feet wide, will throw the rapids and rivers into a still sheet above it for a distance of more than twenty miles.
Сторінка 29 - The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God, as the waters cover the sea.
Сторінка 59 - Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana.
Сторінка 216 - Christian denominations, pursuant to any law or usage whereby such payments before or at the passing of this Act were or are legally or usually paid out of the public or Crown revenue of either of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada...

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