The EmigrantJ. Murray, 1852 - 233 Seiten |
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Seite 32 - 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.
Seite 55 - ... 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...
Seite 4 - ... there exists in the northern regions of the new world a physical obstruction to the operation. I allude to the interminable forest, through the boughs and branches of which the descending snow falls, until reaching the ground it remains hidden from...
Seite 202 - I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) FB HEAD.
Seite 106 - ... destination, and had therefore to pay a little extra attention to our toilette, we did not start next morning until the sun had climbed many degrees into the clear blue sky ; however, at about eight o'clock, we once again got into our canoes, and had proceeded about an hour, when our crew, whose faces, as they propelled us, were always towards the prow, pointed out to us a canoe ahead, which had been lying still, but which was now evidently paddling from us with unusual force, to announce our...
Seite 12 - The gaudy birds, humming-birds, and fire-flies, depart first; then follow the pigeons; the wildfowl fly away to the lakes, until scarcely a bird remains to be seen in the forest. Several of the animals seek refuge in warmer regions; and even the shaggy bear, whose coat seems warm enough to resist any degree of cold, instinctively looks out in time for a hollow tree into which he may leisurely climb, to hang in it during the winter as inanimate as a flitch of bacon from the ceiling of an English farm-house;...
Seite 8 - Even under bright sunshine, and in a most exhilarating air, the biting effect of the cold upon the portion of our face that is exposed to it resembles the application of a strong acid ; and the healthy grin which the countenance assumes requires — as I often observed on those who for many minutes had been in a warm room waiting to see me — a considerable time to relax. In a calm almost any degree of cold...
Seite 24 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Seite 56 - 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.
Seite 108 - I could have suddenly transported one of the ruddy squaws before me to any of the principal bedrooms in Grosvenor Square, her first feeling on entering the apartment would have been that of suffocation from heat and impure air ; but if, gently drawing aside the thick damask curtains of a four-post bed, I had shown her its young aristocratic inmates fast asleep, protected from every breath of air by glass windows, wooden shutters, holland blinds...