The EmigrantJ. Murray, 1846 - 441 pages |
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Page 41 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 31 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 21 - Fahrenheit, that at which water freezes, is only the commencement of an operation that is almost infinite ; for after its congelation water is as competent to continue to receive cold as it was when it was fluid. The application of cold to a block of ice does not...
Page 268 - I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) FB HEAD.
Page 58 - On St. Helens there was quartered a small detachment of troops, and while the breaking up of the ice was momentarily expected, many of the soldiers, muffled in their great-coats with thick storm-gloves on their hands, and with a piece of fur attached to their caps to protect their ears from being frozen, were on the ice employed in attending to the road across it to Montreal. "After a short suspense, which increased rather than allayed their excitement, a deep thundering noise announced to them...
Page 72 - ... only when, his spirit moved him, this feathered captive again hopped upon his stage, and there, standing on a bit of British soil, with his little neck extended, his small head slightly turned, his drooping wings gently fluttering, his bright black eyes intently fixed upon the distant, deep, dark blue Canada sky, he commenced his unpremeditated morning song, his extempore matin prayer. " The effect of his thrilling notes, of his shrill joyous song, of his pure unadulterated English voice, upon...
Page 73 - Reformers, as they leaned towards him, heard nothing in his enchanting melody which even they could desire to improve. I believe that in the hearts of the most obdurate Radicals he reanimated feelings of youthful attachment to their mother country ; and that even the trading Yankee, in whose country birds of the most gorgeous plumage snuffle rather than sing, must have acknowledged that the heaven-born talent of this little bird unaccountably warmed the AngloSaxon blood that flowed in his veins.
Page 1 - Nature has not only outlined her works on a larger scale, but has painted the whole picture with brighter and more costly colors than she used in delineating and in beautifying the Old World. . . . The heavens of America appear infinitely higher, the sky is bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter, the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the wind is stronger, the rain is heavier, the mountains are higher, the rivers longer, the forests...
Page 1 - in both the northern and southern hemispheres of the New World, Nature has not only outlined her works on a larger scale, but has painted the whole picture with brighter and more costly colors than she used in delineating and in beautifying the Old World. . . . The heavens of America appear infinitely higher, the sky is bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter, the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the wind is stronger...
Page 255 - I may take it to be the opinion of candid and honorable men, that the British officers who executed this transaction, and their government who approved it, intended no slight or disrespect to the sovereign authority of the United States.