Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 - 556 páginas
 

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Página 340 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 344 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: And as one gathereth eggs that are left, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Página vii - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 184 - Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder ; to cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is ; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man ; to satisfy the desolate and waste ground ; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Página 340 - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Página 136 - The country which has founded and maintained these Colonies at a vast expense of blood and treasure may justly expect its compensation in turning their unappropriated resources to the account of its own redundant population ; they are the rightful patrimony of the English people, the ample appanage which God and Nature have set aside in the New World for those whose lot has assigned them but insufficient portions in the Old.
Página 75 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; "Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; "Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue ; "Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm.
Página 448 - ... spent their youth. Throughout the empire, but more particularly in the western parts, the most fertile districts, and the most convenient situations, were reserved for the establishment of colonies; some of which were of a civil, and others of a military nature. In their manners and internal policy, the colonies formed a perfect representation of their great parent; and...
Página vii - NOW THE LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.
Página 487 - ... subordinate community to which he belongs. In his own, and in the surrounding Colonies, he finds petty objects occupying petty, stationary, and divided societies ; and it is only when the chances of an uncertain and tardy communication bring intelligence of what has passed a month before on the other side of the Atlantic, that he is reminded of the Empire with which he is connected. But the influence of the United States surrounds him on every side, and is for ever present. It extends itself...

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