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LITERATURE

... strong language it was then thought necessary to use. Liberal members who may have been constrained to sacrifice their independence by threats of diesolution nae advised to take courage from the attitude of the Lords, for, says the writer, ' their lord- ...

LITERATURE

... Vol. 2. London: H. G. Bohn, York-street. W1ho so t well able to write the history of the great American struggle c for independence, and to sketch the life of the hero thereof, as Washington Irving? Ho has all the qualifications for the task-a singularly ...

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... therein s reviewed extends from the reign of Charles II. of England till the American wvar asud the declaration of the independence 0 of the States-a subject Aelvleio affoirds scope to the author for b an eloquent fioale to his workl. r DE FoEoc, W SOn ...

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... manifests in its lights and shades the triumphant disregard of nice rules which distinguish nearly all the work of this independent old painter. The third leading engraving is a copy of Wilkie's celebrated picture of 1 Knox preaching before the Lords ...

THE PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION

... ed sun, and passed off with a degree of ?? that fully! he realized the highest anticipations. At sunrise the bell at ;as Independence Hall announced the epening day. Telegrams kt from the central police station immediately set in motion all mr- the other ...

FROM DUSK TO DAWN

... serutinised the gentle- man -who had called to0 him,'and to his astonish- ment recegnised a man whom he had ]last seen At in Canada, and who recalled an interestiner tfr of his backwoods life. ngev-t fo One evening, in the fall of the year, when the X cattle ...

THE DECADENCE OF ENGLAND

... Qucibsron,-her t, army at Minden,-her coasts threatened, --the fortifications of Cherbourg dismantled, and the whole dominion of Canada, and the best part of India, were added to the British IEmupire. 1Oar enemies, says 'Macaulay, 1 soon con- sidered it as ...

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... the bombardment of Charleston, and stayed a short time at Nassau and Havannah. He then proceeded to the Northern States and Canada, and seems to have made himself thoroughly acquainted with the condition of things. He gives us a good idea of camp life. ...

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... of disaster, on the first det breaking out of hostilities, is a matter of certainty; and the maintenance of the national independence, if the present syetem we is continued for any length of time, has become impossible. They at have destroyed £100,000,000 ...

MY FIRST BALL

... because Tom shared it. He did not live at the vicarage Low. Six years before the ald rector had died, and hie son had gone to Canada. One dreary, never-to-be forgotten morning, when the November sky was dark with clouds, 1, a sorrowful child, had clasped ...

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... nations, said who will act asuapermanentcheck on Northern turbulence. As -a soa- paniou article to this we have a sketch pif Canada, in which a traveller who spent several months of last year in the cuntr gives some interesti ng partitulaer of the state ...

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... aso heartY. al liorn of the same race, subjected to the same Influences of a a harsh, cold climate, the English oesident of Canada eupplifes fur generous fuel for the machinery of life, while the Yankee native ye of New England most grudgingly lubricates ...