Queen's Quarterly, Volume 20Quarterly Committee of Queen's University., 1913 - Electronic journals |
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... idea of what a Canadian Council should be . There had been uneasiness in adjusting the opinions of individual members ; there was a steady decline in the willing- ness of the Assembly , and the country , to support them ; and a ...
... idea of what a Canadian Council should be . There had been uneasiness in adjusting the opinions of individual members ; there was a steady decline in the willing- ness of the Assembly , and the country , to support them ; and a ...
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... ideas had a clearness and force which Bagot's lacked , and in the one really unfortunate episode in the year , his absence of financial skill drew on the governor's head the remonstrances of both Stanley and the Treasury authorities ...
... ideas had a clearness and force which Bagot's lacked , and in the one really unfortunate episode in the year , his absence of financial skill drew on the governor's head the remonstrances of both Stanley and the Treasury authorities ...
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... idea of allowing facts to demonstrate the helpless- ness of the government struggle before definitive surrender . Long before Parliament met , the situation had been discussed in all its bearings ; and the only problem which existed con ...
... idea of allowing facts to demonstrate the helpless- ness of the government struggle before definitive surrender . Long before Parliament met , the situation had been discussed in all its bearings ; and the only problem which existed con ...
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... idea of founding an Observatory at Flagstaff in Arizona , and in equipping it with fine instruments for the special observation of Mars . In this observatory he and his staff have done noble and important work . Those who wish to know ...
... idea of founding an Observatory at Flagstaff in Arizona , and in equipping it with fine instruments for the special observation of Mars . In this observatory he and his staff have done noble and important work . Those who wish to know ...
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... ideas and vain expecta- tions into men destined to travel in the obscure walk of laborious life , serves only to aggravate and embitter that real inequality which it never can remove ; and which the order of civil life establishes as ...
... ideas and vain expecta- tions into men destined to travel in the obscure walk of laborious life , serves only to aggravate and embitter that real inequality which it never can remove ; and which the order of civil life establishes as ...
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Page 334 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 42 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Page 329 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate...
Page 334 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Page 335 - Haply, the river of Time As it grows, as the towns on its marge Fling their wavering lights On a wider, statelier stream May acquire, if not the calm Of its early mountainous shore, Yet a solemn peace of its own.
Page 246 - Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 334 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Page 237 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Page 335 - Now flows through with us, is the plain. Gone is the calm of its earlier shore. Border'd by cities, and hoarse With a thousand cries is its stream. And we on its breast, our minds Are confused as the cries which we hear, Changing and shot as the sights which we see.
Page 323 - The superior character of truth and seriousness, in the matter and substance of the best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner. The two superiorities are closely related, and are in steadfast proportion one to the other.