Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Τόμος 5

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Σελίδα 248 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Σελίδα 243 - ... days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities necessary for the maintenance of good society and light irony: it spends its heavy years often in a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amidst family discord unsoftened by long corridors.
Σελίδα 249 - The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood ; being considered a kind of idle gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson. His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the...
Σελίδα 249 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace : From my heart I give thee joy — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Σελίδα 248 - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Σελίδα 55 - ... is thus taught will soon begin to see a new value and dignity in farm life and to be less envious of the boy or girl who is shut up within the narrow confines of city streets most of the year? And if the farmer's boy learns how to accurately observe the processes of nature with which farm practice deals and the foes with which agriculture has to contend, are not the chances vastly increased that he will be successful in managing nature so as to get the greatest favors from this coy mistress of...
Σελίδα 243 - ... enthusiasm," something that will present motives in an entire absence of high prizes, something that will give patience and feed human love when the limbs ache with weariness, and human Jooks are hard, upon us, — something, clearly, that lies outside personal desires, that includes resignation for ourselves and active love for what is not ourselves.
Σελίδα 235 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Σελίδα 110 - This destruction of the myriad eggs of plant-lice which infest fruit, shade, and forest trees is probably the most important service which the Chickadee renders during its winter residence. More than 450 eggs sometimes occur as the food of one bird in a single day.
Σελίδα 110 - ... taken in the form of eggs. About five per cent, of the stomach contents consisted of spiders or their eggs. Vegetation of various sorts made up a little less than a quarter of the food, two thirds of which, however, consisted of buds and bud scales that were believed to have been accidentally introduced along with plant-lice eggs.

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