My Travels: Visits to Lands Far and Near. European, British, American and CanadianHunter, Rose Company, Limited, printers and binders, 1900 - 320 páginas |
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Abbey Aberdeen admirable American Andrew Carnegie beautiful Ben Nevis Birmingham Bobs Boston Britain British buildings built Canada Canadian Carnegie centre century Chamberlain CHAPTER Character of Robert Chicago Church citizens College commercial Dominion Dunfermline east Edinburgh educational England enter famous father feet Fifeshire Gladstone Glasgow Governor-General of Canada Grote Hall harbor heart House institutions interest Island Joseph Chamberlain Lake lessons Loch London look Lord Aberdeen Lord Minto Lord Robert Cecil Lord Roberts Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury Manitoba manufacturing ment miles military Montreal Moody mountain Niagara Oliver Mowat Ottawa Otter Park passing Queen railway religious river Robert Shields scene School Scotland Scottish seems side sketch spirit stands story streets success tion to-day Toronto town traveller Victoria wealth Windsor Castle young youth
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Página 14 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!
Página 126 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 94 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página 271 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 108 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 66 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 118 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 6 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Página 118 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 144 - WHERE is the true man's fatherland ? Is it where he by chance is born ? Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned ? Oh yes ! his fatherland must be As the blue heaven wide and free ! Is it alone where freedom is, Where God is God and man is man? Doth he not claim a broader span For the soul's love of home than this...