The British Empire Series, 3. köideFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1900 |
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Page 329 - up like ways to heaven. The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Even to the limit of the land.
Page 537 - possession until 1635, when it was granted by the king of France to MM. de 1'Olive and du Plessis. In 1639 the English formed their first settlement; but they were shortly afterwards murdered or driven from the island by the Caribs. In 1642 the king of France sold it to the French West India Company,
Page 544 - consisted of a Governor, a Court of Policy, and a Combined Court. The functions of an Executive and Legislative Council and House of Assembly were performed by the Governor and Court of Policy, except as regards taxation and finance, which were dealt with by the Combined Court,
Page 200 - Made running gold, and in the gleam We freed our birch upon the stream. There down along the elms at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift. The night has fallen and the tide Now and again comes drifting home, Across
Page 306 - So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives, or dies before his time; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst, To show how all things were created first.
Page 526 - Bills passed by the Provincial Legislatures require the assent of the Lieutenant-Governor and may be disallowed within a year by the Governor-General. Those passed by the Dominion Parliament require the assent of the GovernorGeneral and may be disallowed within two years by the Queen.
Page 304 - a sea-change Into something rich and strange, Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell, Hark ! now I hear them— Ding dong,
Page 545 - An Executive Council was established in 1839 to assist the superintendent, and in 1853 a Legislative Assembly was formally constituted consisting of eighteen elected and three nominated members. The settlement was declared a colony in 1862, and a Lieutenant-Governor appointed
Page 527 - with the central control of Education. The Council is divided into Committees for the management of Roman Catholic and Protestant Schools respectively. The schools are maintained partly by local taxation and fees, and partly by grants from the provincial government.
Page 539 - 5 . ANTIGUA was discovered by Columbus in 1493, who named it after a church in Seville, called Santa Maria la Antigua; it was first inhabited by a few English from St. Kitts in 1632. In 1663 Charles II. made a