The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2Canadian Institute., 1857 - Art |
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... reference to our progress in mining industry , we find that the exportations of metals from our mines was valued at £ 8,350 in 1852 , and £ 74,000 in 1854. Attention is directed to the value of the Tamarack , as a serviceable wood ...
... reference to our progress in mining industry , we find that the exportations of metals from our mines was valued at £ 8,350 in 1852 , and £ 74,000 in 1854. Attention is directed to the value of the Tamarack , as a serviceable wood ...
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... reference to the industrial results which it may yield . For this success , which is a mere repetition of that obtained at London in 1851 , Canada is indebted entirely to the geological commissioners ; and this shews to demonstration ...
... reference to the industrial results which it may yield . For this success , which is a mere repetition of that obtained at London in 1851 , Canada is indebted entirely to the geological commissioners ; and this shews to demonstration ...
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... mankind generally , so that other men and other nations might share in its advantages as well as ourselves . " Again , in reference to the proposed application of the 42 REVIEWS - REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION .
... mankind generally , so that other men and other nations might share in its advantages as well as ourselves . " Again , in reference to the proposed application of the 42 REVIEWS - REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION .
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Again , in reference to the proposed application of the funds to the formation of a library , the Judiciary Committee go on to say : " Such an application of the funds could hardly be regarded as a faithful exe- cution of the trust ...
Again , in reference to the proposed application of the funds to the formation of a library , the Judiciary Committee go on to say : " Such an application of the funds could hardly be regarded as a faithful exe- cution of the trust ...
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... reference to the earth , acquired an independent orbit more or less elliptical . This orbit , necessarily subject to " great disturbing influences may sooner or later cross our atmosphere and be " intercepted by the body of the globe ...
... reference to the earth , acquired an independent orbit more or less elliptical . This orbit , necessarily subject to " great disturbing influences may sooner or later cross our atmosphere and be " intercepted by the body of the globe ...
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Page 205 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
Page 41 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 106 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!
Page 106 - How it swells! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 254 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 105 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 105 - Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days ! "Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth. "To friends above, from...
Page 205 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 253 - Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§...
Page 205 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final law — Tho...