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Page 169 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 82 - To take the oversight of children before they are ready for school life ; to exert an influence over their whole being in correspondence with its nature ; to strengthen their bodily powers ; to exercise their senses ; to employ the awakening mind ; to make them thoughtfully acquainted with the world of nature and of man ; to guide their heart and soul in a right direction, and lead them to the Origin of all life and to union with Him.
Page 97 - To one who has been long in city pent, "Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the...
Page 205 - It has labour, it has truth ; It has wrongs that may be righted, Noble deeds that may be done, Its great battles are unfought, Its great triumphs are unwon.
Page 142 - Premises into consideration, and willing to promote the interest, advantage and accommodation of the Inhabitants of the Town and Township aforesaid, and of others His Majesty's Subjects within the said Province, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, have ordained, erected, established and appointed, and do hereby ordain, erect, establish and appoint, A PUBLIC OPEN MARKET, to be held on SATURDAY, in each and every week during the year, within the said Town of YORK : (The first Market...
Page 93 - I shall have completed my seventy-second year before I can reach London, of which more than fifty years have been spent in Upper Canada ; and one of my chief objects, during all that time, was to bring King's College into active operation ; and now, after more than six years of increasing prosperity, to see it destroyed by stolid ignorance and presumption, and the voice of prayer and praise banished from its halls, is a calamity not easy to bear.
Page 71 - Manufactures, &e., effecting the formation of a Provincial Museum, and for the purpose of facilitating the acquirement and the dissemination of knowledge connected with the surveying, engineering and architectural professions.
Page 142 - Merchandize, brought by Merchants, Farmers, and others, for the necessary supply of the said Town of YORK; AND WHEREAS great benefit and advantage might be derived to the said Inhabitants and others, by establishing a Weekly Market within that Town, at a place and on a day certain for the purpose aforesaid — KNOW ALL MEN, That I, PETER...
Page 143 - Street ; then along Market Street north seventyfour degrees east two chains ; then north sixty-four degrees, east along Market Street seven chains sixty links, more or less, to the place of beginning, for the purpose of exposing for sale cattle, sheep, poultry, and other provisions, goods and merchandize, as aforesaid. Given under my hand and seal at arms, at York, this twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and in the forly-iourth year of His Majesty's...
Page 11 - In the brave days of old. Then none were for a party; Then all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor; And the poor man loved the great...