Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du CanadaRoyal Society of Canada., 1887 |
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Acadiens American amphibole ancient anglais années apatite autres avaient avait baie bien C'est c'était Canada Canadian chrysolite civilisation colonies continent contre council crenitic crystals d'une Dawson deposits deux été être fait famille feldspars forges Français France Geological glauconite gneiss grand Grand-Pré granitic habitants hommes Hudson's Bay Company igneous Island j'ai jours l'abbé l'on Lake languages Laramie left-handed left-handedness limestone magnetite mass Memramcook meridian mineral missionnaires Montreal movement municipal navire nombre Nouvelle-Ecosse observed origin orthoclase oxyd paper parish party plutonic province pulvinus pyroxene qu'il qu'on quartz Quebec quelques Report right hand right side River Royal Rupert's Land sauvages scapolite sepiolite shale silicates Société Society sous species specific gravity surface temperature temps tendril terre tion tissue tourmaline tout town township tribes Trois Rivières Upper Upper Canada vaisseaux veins Winslow
Popular passages
Page 3 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 17 - Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the 'south side of the altar.
Page 10 - Whether Eve was framed out of the left side of Adam, I dispute not ; because I stand not yet assured which is the right side of a man, or whether there be any such distinction in nature.
Page 22 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...
Page 49 - Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach ; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions, it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 65 - This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers, — Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven...
Page 65 - Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Page 16 - They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
Page 27 - THE RULE OF THE ROAD. The rule of the road, is a paradox quite Both in riding and driving along ; If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong...
Page 17 - Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.