The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2Canadian Institute., 1857 |
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... period of his life , he kept a hired assassin to remove any obnoxious individual against whom he entertained personal enmity . This bravo , whose occupation was no secret , went by the name of Casenov's Sköcoom or evil genius . He ...
... period of his life , he kept a hired assassin to remove any obnoxious individual against whom he entertained personal enmity . This bravo , whose occupation was no secret , went by the name of Casenov's Sköcoom or evil genius . He ...
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... period of the year are split open and dried in the sun for their winter's supply . I have never seen salt made use of by any tribe of Indians for the purpose of preserving food , and they all evince the greatest dislike to salt meat . I ...
... period of the year are split open and dried in the sun for their winter's supply . I have never seen salt made use of by any tribe of Indians for the purpose of preserving food , and they all evince the greatest dislike to salt meat . I ...
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... period of the Aurora Borealis , by Professor Olmstead . One useful function of the Smithsonian Institution is that of effecting literary and scientific exchanges between individuals and societies . The extent of their operations in this ...
... period of the Aurora Borealis , by Professor Olmstead . One useful function of the Smithsonian Institution is that of effecting literary and scientific exchanges between individuals and societies . The extent of their operations in this ...
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... periods of formation . As the stone is of excellent quality , and readily obtainable , the discovery - apart from the scientific interest belonging to the mode of occurrence of the deposit - is one of no little importance . Specimens ...
... periods of formation . As the stone is of excellent quality , and readily obtainable , the discovery - apart from the scientific interest belonging to the mode of occurrence of the deposit - is one of no little importance . Specimens ...
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... period , although doubtless attri- butable to several concurrent causes , is a fact which must not be overlooked in es- timating the services rendered by this Association to the cause of human advance- ment ; nor can I in any better ...
... period , although doubtless attri- butable to several concurrent causes , is a fact which must not be overlooked in es- timating the services rendered by this Association to the cause of human advance- ment ; nor can I in any better ...
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Page 100 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling...
Page 99 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 35 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, " to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 199 - And he, shall he Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 199 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 232 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 200 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 101 - Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells, Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells: To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
Page 299 - Interpreter takes them apart again, and has them first into a room where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a Muck-rake in his hand ; there stood also one over his head, with a Celestial Crown in his hand, and proffered him that Crown for his Muck-rake; but the man did neither look up nor regard, but raked to himself the straws, the small sticks, and dust of the floor.
Page 199 - So careful of the type'? but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. 'Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more.