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 Rose Publishing Company, 1886 - 816 halaman |
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Halaman 297 - Outside stood the Marquis of Lorn, 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,
Halaman 70 - 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.
Halaman 269 - 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.
Halaman 74 - ... 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...
Halaman 478 - 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...
Halaman 415 - Forbes medal in palaeontology and the Murchison medal in geology. He was appointed geologist and naturalist to Her Majesty's North American Boundary Commission in 1873, and at the close of the commission's work, in 1875, he published a report under the title of " Geology and Resources of the Fortyninth Paralle1.
Halaman 478 - Grey-hair'd soldiers gather round him, relics of an age of war, Followers of the Victor-Eagle, when his flight was wild and far. Men who panted in the death-strife on Rodrigo's bloody ridge, Hearts that sicken'd at the death-shriek from the Russian's shatter'd bridge ; Men who heard the immortal war-cry of the wild Egyptian fight — ' Forty centuries o'erlook us from yon Pyramid's grey height...
Halaman 164 - Ministers and their supporters at the ensuing general election, and that he and his friends should receive. the contract for the construction of the Railway; that accordingly Sir Hugh Allan did advance a large sum of money for the purpose mentioned...