The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe, Band 26Brook, 1915 - 163 Seiten |
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Seite 156 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 35 - No member of the University shall frequent the Romish mass, or the meeting houses of Presbyterians, Baptists or Methodists, or the conventicles or places of worship of any other Dissenters from the Church of England...
Seite 8 - ... of the crown and the integrity of the empire. On some of the hardest fought fields of the Peninsula, my countrymen died in the front rank, with their faces to the foe. The proudest naval trophy of the last American war was brought by a Nova Scotian into the harbour of his native town ; and the blood that flowed from Nelson's death wound in the cockpit of the Victory, mingled with that of a Nova Scotian stripling beside him, struck down in the same glorious fight.
Seite 106 - Vancouver's Island, with its vast coal measures, lies beyond. The beautiful islands of the Pacific and the growing commerce of the ocean, are beyond. Populous China and the rich east are beyond, and the sails of our children's children will reflect as familiarly the sunbeams of the south as they now have the angry tempests of the north.
Seite 59 - ... persons, whose names are scarcely known in England, except by the clerks in Downing Street; who are remarkable for nothing above their neighbours in the colony, except perhaps the enjoyment of offices too richly endowed...
Seite 61 - The Governor must only oppose the wishes of the Assembly where the honour of the Crown, or the interests of the empire are deeply concerned ; and the Assembly must be ready to modify some of its measures for the sake of harmony, and from a reverent attachment to the authority of Great Britain.
Seite 82 - The Lord of the Bedchamber sat in his shirt, (And D — dy the pliant was there), And his feelings appeared to be very much hurt, And his brow overclouded with care. It was plain from the flush...
Seite 2 - I'm abroad, I brag of everything that Nova Scotia is, has, or can produce; and when they beat me at everything else, I turn round on them and say, 'How high does your tide rise?