Daylight Land: The Experiences, Incidents, and Adventures, Humorous and Otherwise, which Befel Judge John Doe, Tourist, of San Francisco; Mr. Cephas Pepperell, Capitalist of Boston; Colonel Goffe, the Man from New Hampshire, and Divers Others, in Their Parlor-car Excursion Over Prairie and Mountain ...

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Cupples and Hurd, 1888 - Banff (Alta.) - 338 pages
 

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Page 53 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 207 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 166 - How deep the silence, yet how loud the praise ! But are they silent all? or is there not A tongue in every star, that talks with man, And woos him to be wise...
Page 167 - But are they silent all ? or is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise ? nor wooes in vain : This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, . And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank ; An embryo God ; a spark of fire divine, Which must burn on for ages, when the sun (Fair transitory creature of a day !) Has...
Page 5 - DAYLIGHT LAND. The experiences, incidents, and adventures, humorous and otherwise, which befell Judge John Doe, Tourist, of San Francisco; Mr. Cephas Pepperell, Capitalist, of Boston ; Colonel Goffe, the Man from New Hampshire, and divers others, in their Parlor-Car Excursion over Prairie and Mountain ; as recorded and set forth by WHH MURRAY.
Page 274 - Fiery? the fiery duke? — Tell the hot duke, that— No, but not yet; — may be, he is not well. Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound ; we are not ourselves, When nature, being oppressed, commands th"e mind To suffer with the body.
Page 99 - Canada is ton times larger than the State of Illinois. Two hundred millions of people can be supported, richly supported, north of the forty-ninth parallel. Five hundred miles north of the international boundary you can sow wheat three months earlier than you can in Dacotah.
Page 201 - ll rally round the flag, boys, we 'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom, We will rally from the hill-side, we 'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. Chorus. — The Union forever, hurrah ! boys, hurrah, Down with the traitor, up with the star, While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Page 242 - O that mankind were wise ! and would early seek that treasure which cometh from above ; and which neither moth nor rust can corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal...

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