Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada : for the Use of EmigrantsJ. Murray, 1833 - 120 Seiten |
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Seite 32 - Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis* and merle' are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.
Seite 51 - Memoirs, ip 166. All the forms and states of nature excite feelings of a gratifying description. Thus even the privations and hardships of a forest-life are found to have their charms : " I fell in with Moore's Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and I cannot describe the pleasure I received from reading his vivid, spirited, and accurate description of the feelings he experienced, on first taking on him the life of a hunter. At an earlier period of life than Lord Edward had then attained, I made...
Seite 56 - ... will do, but butter is more esteemed,) and when it boils, put in the steak, turning and peppering it for about a quarter of an hour ; then put it into a deep dish, and pour the oil over it till it floats, -and so serve it.
Seite 80 - I'll be d — d if you get one foot of land here ;" and thereupon the parties joined issue. " On this- war was declared against him by his Excellency in council, and every means were used to annoy him here, and misrepresent his proceedings at home ; but he stood firm, and by an occasional visit to the colonial office in England, he opened the eyes of ministers to the proceedings of both parties, and for a while averted the danger.
Seite 51 - And even now, when a tropical climate, privation, disease, and thankless toil, are combining with, advancing years to unstring a frame, the strength of which once set hunger, cold, and fatigue at defiance, and to undermine a constitution that once appeared iron-bound, still I cannot lie down by a fire in the woods, without the elevating feeling which I experienced formerly returning, though in a diminished degree.
Seite 38 - In deer-stalking, and, indeed, all kinds of sporting in this country, it is often necessary to camp out, —that is, bivouac in the woods. This would appear to a man who is curious. in well-aired sheets as the next way to the other world ; but in reality there is nothing either dangerous or unpleasant in the proceeding.
Seite 2 - valuable time" to devote to my own proper *A book of 120 pages by DunJop, published in London by John Murray in 1832. affairs. And therefore, it being now mid-winter, and seeing no prospect of my being able to follow my out-of-door avocations for some weeks, I set myself down in something like a pet, to throw together and put in form the more prominent parts of the information I had been collecting, to the end that I might be enabled in future to answer my voluminous correspondents after the manner...
Seite 2 - ... it was no great grievance to do so. But, after having written some reams in answer to them, and when every other packet brought one, and no longer ago than last week I had two to answer, things began to look serious, and so did I : for I found that, if they went on at this rate, I should have no ' valuable time' to devote to my own proper affairs.
Seite 52 - ... taught that there is a higher principle of action than the mere impulse of the passions — that he should never have learned, before plunging his country into blood and disorder, to have weighed the means he possessed with the end he proposed, or the problematical good with the certain evil! — that he should have had Tom Paine for a tutor in religion and politics, and Tom Moore for a biographer, to hold up as a pattern, instead of warning, the errors and misfortunes of a being so noble —...
Seite 37 - ... and other haunts. Another way is to let a canoe or raft float down a stream, during; the midsummer night, with a bright light upon it. This seems to dazzle or fascinate the animal, who is fond of standing in the water when the mosquitoes are troublesome in the woods ; and if the...