By Ocean, Prairie, and Peak: Some Gleanings from an Emigrant Chaplain's Log, on Journeys to British Columbia, Manitoba, and Eastern Canada ; with Map and Illustrations

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896 - 204 pagini
 

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Pagina 55 - LIGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord ; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Pagina 28 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 28 - To the memory of James Wolfe, Major-general and Commander-in-chief of the British Land Forces on an expedition against Quebec, who, after surmounting, by ability and valour, all obstacles of art and nature, was slain in the moment of victory, on the 13th of September 1759, The King and the Parliament of Great Britain dedicate this monument.
Pagina 26 - Since it was my misfortune to be discomfited, and mortally wounded, it is a great consolation to me to be vanquished by so brave and generous an enemy. If I could survive this wound, I would engage to beat three times the number of such forces as I commanded this morning with a third of their number of British troops.
Pagina 160 - With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo Cloth boards 2 6 BERNARD HAMILTON : CURATE OF STOWE. By MARY E. SHIPLEY, author of "Janetta," &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo Cloth boards 3 6 BERTIE AND HIS SISTER. A Domestic Story. By AH ENGELBACH, author of "The King's Warrant,
Pagina 161 - Boy," &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo Cloth boards a 6 NOT A SUCCESS. By the author of " Our Valley," " The Children of Seeligsberg,
Pagina 161 - By ANNETTE LYSTER. With Three page Illustrations. Crown 8vo .Cloth boards 2 6 ANIMAL CREATION (THE).
Pagina 160 - O CHRYSSIE'S HERO. By ANNETTE LYSTER, author of "Fan's Silken String.
Pagina 26 - I will neither give orders nor interfere any further. I have much business that must be attended to, of greater moment than your ruined garrison and this wretched country. My time is very short; therefore pray leave me. I wish you all comfort, and to be happily extricated from your present perplexities.
Pagina 48 - ... miles through the high Laurentian plateau. Its walls are an almost unbroken line of naked cliffs of syenite and gneiss. Its depth is many hundred feet greater than that of the St. Lawrence ; indeed, if the St. Lawrence...

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