Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada

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Royal Society of Canada., 1908
 

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Page lvi - For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him, yet is there something of man, which neither the spirit of man that is in him, itself knoweth.
Page lxviii - For a day and a night and a morrow, That his strength might endure for a span, With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man.
Page liii - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 118 - In conclusion, the writer wishes to express his sincere thanks to Prof.
Page lxiii - ... that rules others rules him. But, unlike others, he unites these hostile opposites. He is at once the chemist and the artist. His eye is both that of the poet and the anatomist, now in fine phrensy rolling, and now coolly searching through all the living fibers of the spirit it adores ; enraptured with " The light that never was on sea or land, The inspiration and the poet's dream...
Page 148 - Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven...
Page 53 - Murs, ville Et port, Asile De mort, Mer grise Où brise La brise, Tout dort. Dans la plaine Naît un bruit : C'est l'haleine De la nuit. Elle brame Comme une âme Qu'une flamme Toujours suit. La voix plus haute Semble un grelot. D'un nain qui saute C'est le galop.
Page 64 - If the English do not give us the satisfaction we demand, we will take Canada, which wants to enter the Union ; and when, together with Canada, we shall have the Floridas, we shall no longer have any difficulties with our neighbors ; and it is the only way of preventing them.
Page 147 - ... incessant lightning. This small party slowly moved back toward Herbert's Ferry. It was with difficulty that the drivers and attendants on the cart could find their way ; the soldiers marched on with their bayonets fixed, linked in ranks together covering the road. The creaking of the wagon and the groans of the youth added to the horror of the night ; the road was no longer to be traced when it quitted the woods, and it was a great satisfaction that a flash of lightning, which glared among the...
Page 62 - I could venture to point out as (not) being tainted with it; the line of distinction between us is completely drawn. Friendship (and) Cordiality are not to be found — even common intercourse scarcely exists — the lower class of people to strengthen a term of contempt add Anglois...

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