The Life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, 第 1 卷

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J. Murray, 1905

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第 264 頁 - Day after day for a whole week in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery lanes, and reaches that wound endlessly in and out of a network of islands, promontories and peninsulas for thousands of miles unruffled by the slightest swell from the adjoining ocean and presenting at every turn an...
第 271 頁 - ... religious feelings. The war to which we invite you as recruits and comrades is a war waged against the brute forces of nature ; but those forces will welcome our domination, and reward our attack by placing their treasures at our disposal. It is a war of ambition, — for we intend to annex territory, — but neither blazing villages nor devastated fields will mark our ruthless track ; our battalions will march across the illimitable plains which stretch before us as sunshine steals athwart the...
第 279 頁 - Her Majesty's dominions. I found you proud of your descent and anxious to maintain your connection with the Mother Country. I leave you more convinced than ever of the solicitude of Great Britain to reciprocate your affection, of her dependence on your fidelity in every emergency.
第 142 頁 - HELEN'S TOWER, here I stand, Dominant over sea and land. Son's love built me, and I hold Mother's love engrav'n in gold. Love is in and out of time, I am mortal stone and lime. Would my granite girth were strong As either love, to last as long! I should wear my crown entire To and thro' the Doomsday fire, And be found of angel eyes In earth's recurring Paradise.
第 91 頁 - I give you an idea of the wonderful panorama in the midst of which we found ourselves? I think, perhaps, its most striking feature was the stillness — and deadness — and impassibility of this new world: ice, and rock, and water surrounded us; not a sound of any kind interrupted the silence; the sea did not break upon the shore; no bird or any living thing was visible; the midnight sun — by this time muffled in a transparent mist — shed an awful, mysterious lustre on glacier and mountain;...
第 272 頁 - Happily in no part of Her Majesty's dominions are the relations existing between the white settler and the original natives and masters of the land so well understood or so generously and humanely interpreted as in Canada, and as a consequence, instead of being a cause of anxiety and disturbance, the Indian tribes of the Dominion are regarded as a valuable adjunct to our strength and industry.
第 222 頁 - as their ultimate destiny. Nor do I think that this novel mode of thought will be devoid of benefit, provided it remains for the next twenty or thirty years a vague aspiration, and is not prematurely converted into a practical project. Hitherto there has been a lack of self-assertion and self-confidence amongst Canadians in forcible contrast with the sentiments which animate our friends to the south of us: — now however, the consolidation of the Provinces, the expansion of their Maritime interests,...
第 271 頁 - Government at Ottawa, for you are well aware that both have regarded your coming here with unmitigated satisfaction. You have left your own land in obedience to a conscientious scruple, nor will you have been the first to cross the Atlantic under the pressure of a similar exigency. In doing so you must have made great sacrifices, broken with many tender associations, and overthrown the settled purposes of your former peacefully ordered lives ; but the very fact of your having manfully faced the uncertainties...
第 16 頁 - Her exquisite and delicate loveliness, all the more fascinating for the tender sadness which seemed, as a contemporary describes it, to project over her the shadow of early death; her sweet voice, and the pathetic expression of her singing, the timid and touching grace of her air and deportment, had won universal admiration for Eliza Ann Linley.
第 240 頁 - I cannot help thinking that quite apart from the advantage to myself — my yearly journeys through the Provinces will have been of public benefit, as exemplifying with what spontaneous, unconcerted unanimity of language the entire Dominion has declared its faith in itself, in its destiny, in its connection with the Mother Country, and in the well-ordered freedom of a constitutional Monarchy. (Applause.) And, gentlemen, it is this very combination of sentiments which appears to me so wholesome and...

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