Newfoundland: the Oldest British Colony: Its History, Its Present Condition and Its Prospects in the FutureChapman & Hall, 1883 - 489 sivua |
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... Newfoundland than any man who has con- tributed to the literature of its history . A resident in the Island for a quarter of a century , he has coasted round ... Newfoundland . Newfoundland , the Rev. M. Harvey contributes the largest share.
... Newfoundland than any man who has con- tributed to the literature of its history . A resident in the Island for a quarter of a century , he has coasted round ... Newfoundland . Newfoundland , the Rev. M. Harvey contributes the largest share.
Sivu vi
... Newfoundland , the Rev. M. Harvey contributes the largest share of authoritative work . For myself , I have brought into the collaboration a careful revision of facts and opinions , some special investigations of historical data , and ...
... Newfoundland , the Rev. M. Harvey contributes the largest share of authoritative work . For myself , I have brought into the collaboration a careful revision of facts and opinions , some special investigations of historical data , and ...
Sivu vii
... Newfoundland is one of the most remark- able episodes in the history of the British Empire . It presents us at our worst and at our best . Strange in- stances of official tyranny blur the chronicles of the Island's rise and progress ...
... Newfoundland is one of the most remark- able episodes in the history of the British Empire . It presents us at our worst and at our best . Strange in- stances of official tyranny blur the chronicles of the Island's rise and progress ...
Sivu viii
... Newfoundland is to - day a thriving community . The time is not far distant when it may rival , in wealth and status , the most important of England's colonial possessions . Discovered three hundred years ago , Newfoundland has only ...
... Newfoundland is to - day a thriving community . The time is not far distant when it may rival , in wealth and status , the most important of England's colonial possessions . Discovered three hundred years ago , Newfoundland has only ...
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... Newfoundland had no railway . As material on which to base prediction of future success , and as an example of the rapidity of modern progress , I am informed that at the date of these introductory words to an interesting historical ...
... Newfoundland had no railway . As material on which to base prediction of future success , and as an example of the rapidity of modern progress , I am informed that at the date of these introductory words to an interesting historical ...
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Sivu 301 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. "And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Sivu 301 - Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Sivu 337 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Sivu 336 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Sivu 176 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Sivu 31 - The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own. This, from the blessed land of Aromat — After the day of darkness, when the dead Went wandering o'er Moriah — the good saint...
Sivu 6 - Dickens : The Letters of Charles Dickens edited by his Sister-inlaw and his eldest Daughter 4 v.
Sivu 337 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same, or either of them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such...
Sivu 336 - ... that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind on that part of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands...
Sivu 361 - ... a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of fishermen'.