Days and Nights in the TropicsMorang & Company, limited, 1905 - 230 pages |
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... four or five English - speaking residents . To one of these , the Hon . George Pickril , the American consul , I bore a letter of introduction . With gracious cordiality he bade me welcome , posted me at the club and secured for me ...
... four or five English - speaking residents . To one of these , the Hon . George Pickril , the American consul , I bore a letter of introduction . With gracious cordiality he bade me welcome , posted me at the club and secured for me ...
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... four to five thousand souls . A lake three miles in circumference disappeared , leaving at the level of its waters a rich deposit of pozzolana — a bright red , granulated earth . But Furnas was the very focus and theatre of igneous ...
... four to five thousand souls . A lake three miles in circumference disappeared , leaving at the level of its waters a rich deposit of pozzolana — a bright red , granulated earth . But Furnas was the very focus and theatre of igneous ...
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... four legs , save rats and cats , is harnessed to a cart and made to earn its food . To a stranger from over the sea it is very amusing to pass a sheep drawing a diminutive wagon and a big husky fellow seated and holding the reins , or a ...
... four legs , save rats and cats , is harnessed to a cart and made to earn its food . To a stranger from over the sea it is very amusing to pass a sheep drawing a diminutive wagon and a big husky fellow seated and holding the reins , or a ...
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... Four hund- red years in the life of an island people is a period sufficiently long to develop racial traits , a racial character and entity . To judge from ap- pearances an infusion of new blood would do no harm , for an insular race ...
... Four hund- red years in the life of an island people is a period sufficiently long to develop racial traits , a racial character and entity . To judge from ap- pearances an infusion of new blood would do no harm , for an insular race ...
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... four years . Sit- uated on the northern end of the island , and rising to a height of four thousand four hundred and fifty feet the great mount was visible forty miles out in the Caribbean Sea . On April 6th it began to emit smoke , and ...
... four years . Sit- uated on the northern end of the island , and rising to a height of four thousand four hundred and fifty feet the great mount was visible forty miles out in the Caribbean Sea . On April 6th it began to emit smoke , and ...
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Page 125 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 163 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 25 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 175 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page iv - Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, by THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY (L1M1TED), Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
Page 167 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened...
Page 155 - One he surpassed in the difficulty of the scene of action, another in the extent of the countries he subdued; this, in the number and strength of the enemies he overcame, that, in the savage manners and treacherous disposition of the people he humanized; one, in mildness and clemency to his prisoners, another, in bounty and munificence to his troops; and all, in the number of battles that...
Page 6 - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
Page 196 - I stood before the triple northern port, Where dedicated shapes of saints and kings, Stern faces bleared with immemorial watch, Looked down benignly grave and seemed to say, Ye come and go incessant ; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past ; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
Page 148 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.