The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2Canadian Institute., 1857 - Art |
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... seen requiring them , for a sum not exceeding twenty dollars . We will suppose that the mill - dam to be passed over is fifteen feet high from the surface of the water , and that the salmon can surmount the height of five feet at a ...
... seen requiring them , for a sum not exceeding twenty dollars . We will suppose that the mill - dam to be passed over is fifteen feet high from the surface of the water , and that the salmon can surmount the height of five feet at a ...
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... seen by the printed official reports . The first of these was made , by order of the French Government , in the year 1850 , the second in 1852 , and the third in 1856 : being an abstract from the official jury report of the Exposition ...
... seen by the printed official reports . The first of these was made , by order of the French Government , in the year 1850 , the second in 1852 , and the third in 1856 : being an abstract from the official jury report of the Exposition ...
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... seen , and although it has been patented in France and England , and , as it would seem , to some extent , in Canada , it is believed that the use in this Province is unfettered ; 1st , because by the Statutes of Canada , no foreigner ...
... seen , and although it has been patented in France and England , and , as it would seem , to some extent , in Canada , it is believed that the use in this Province is unfettered ; 1st , because by the Statutes of Canada , no foreigner ...
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... seen their eyes seemingly starting out of the sockets from the great pressure . But on the contrary , when the bandages were removed I have noticed them cry until they were replaced . From the apparent dullness of the children whilst ...
... seen their eyes seemingly starting out of the sockets from the great pressure . But on the contrary , when the bandages were removed I have noticed them cry until they were replaced . From the apparent dullness of the children whilst ...
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... seen amongst them . They , however , wear long strings of small shells found on the coast called Ioquas , and used by them also as money . A great traffic is carried on amongst all the tribes through the me- dium of these shells , which ...
... seen amongst them . They , however , wear long strings of small shells found on the coast called Ioquas , and used by them also as money . A great traffic is carried on amongst all the tribes through the me- dium of these shells , which ...
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Page 205 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
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Page 106 - How it swells! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 254 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 105 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 105 - Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days ! "Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth. "To friends above, from...
Page 205 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 253 - Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§...
Page 205 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final law — Tho...