A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time. A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life ; Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers, Volume 1George Maclean Rose |
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Page 411 - Pyramid's grey height!" They who heard the moans of Jaffa, and the breach of Acre knew, They who rushed their foaming war-steeds on the squares of Waterloo ; They who loved him, they who fear'd him, they who in his dark hour fled, Round the mighty burial gather, spellbound by the awful Dead! Churchmen, princes, statesmen, warriors, all a kingdom's chief array, And the Fox stands, crowned mourner, by the Eagle's hero clay! But the last high rite is paid him, and the last deep knell is rung, And the...
Page 259 - Outside stood the Marquis of Lorn,1 just two years old, a dear, white, fat, fair little fellow with reddish hair, but very delicate features, like both his father and mother: he is such a merry, independent little child. He had a black velvet dress and jacket, with a "sporran", scarf, and Highland bonnet.
Page 62 - Calnc and Calnstone, in the County of Wilts, and Lord Wycombe, Baron of Chipping- Wycombe, in the County of Bucks, in the Peerage of Great Britain ; Earl of Kerry and Earl of Shelburne, Viscount Clanmaurice and Fitzmaurice, Baron of Kerry, Lixnaw. and Dunkerron, in the Peerage of Ireland ; Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of St.
Page 231 - But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Page 66 - ... country, he went to Swansea, South Wales, as manager of copper-smelting and coal-mining operations, in which his uncle was interested. He remained in charge until shortly after his uncle's death in 1838. During the seven years that he spent in South Wales he devoted himself to the study of the coal-fields of that region, and his minute and accurate maps and sections were adopted by the ordnance geological survev, and published by the government. He was the first to demonstrate that the stratum...
Page 411 - But the last high rite is paid him, and the last deep knell is rung, And the cannons' iron voices have their thunderrequiem sung; And, 'mid banners idly drooping, silent gloom and mouldering state, Shall the trampler of the world upon the Judgmenttrumpet wait.
Page 411 - Mid a sea of plumes and horsemen, all the burial pomp of war. Riderless, a war-worn charger follows his dead master's bier ; Long since battle-trumpet roused him, he but lived to follow here. From his grave 'mid Ocean's dirges, moaning surge and sparkling foam, Lo, the Imperial Dead returneth ! lo, the...
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Page 166 - He had not long occupied the position of lieutenant-governor, before he began to find himself more or less at variance with certain members of the local government, especially with the premier, M. De Boucherville. The variance originally arose, partly from the different points of view, from which they contemplated public affairs generally, and each seems to have been of opinion that the other was trying to usurp functions foreign to his office. M.
Page 26 - After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., in 1685, the most cruel and protracted persecutions commenced against the Protestants of France.