Yonge Street and Dundas Street: The Men After Whom They Were NamedÉditeur non identifié, 1878 - 29 pages |
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Page 28 - There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth.
Page 17 - Our beloved Queen Victoria's father, and grandfather to the Prince of Wales, who paid us a visit in 1860, arrived from England at Quebec in the year 1791, a short time before the division of the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. The Prince was received in due form by the civil and military authorities.
Page 20 - Nothing was beyond its grasp ; no variety of opinion disturbed its unanimity, for the pleasure of Dundas was the sole rule for every one of them. Eeporters, the fruit of free discussion, did not exist ; and though they had existed, would not have dared to disclose the proceedings. Silent, powerful, submissive, mysterious, and irresponsible, they might have been sitting in Venice.
Page 2 - Achilles' horses in Homer, under naked nominations, without deserts and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences ? To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?
Page 8 - He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and in all respects an estimable and accomplished gentleman.
Page 24 - I'm able How innocence triumphed and pride got a fall. But push round the claret — Come, stewards, don't spare it — With rapture you'll drink to the toast that I give : Here, boys, Off with it merrily — MELVILLE for ever, and...
Page 25 - If, as was said, Scott really intended this as a shout of triumph over the expiring orator, it was an indecency "which no fair license of party zeal can palliate. But I am inclined to believe that nothing was meant beyond one of the jocular, and not unnatural, exultations over the defeated leaders of the impeachment, of which the song is composed. There were some important persons, however...
Page 28 - 'Tis vain to name him whom we mourn in vain.' Almost the last time I saw him, he was talking of you in the highest terms of regard, and expressing great hopes of again seeing you at Dunira this summer, where I proposed to attend you.
Page 22 - ... a poor man, to be provided for directly as a distinguished moral teacher and a great philosophical writer. There were two occurrences more important — the impeachment of Lord Melville ; and the proposed reform of the Court of Session. The charges against Lord Melville were groundless, and were at last reduced to insignificancy. To those who knew the pecuniary indifference of the man, and who think of the comparative facility of peculation in those irregular days, the mere smallness of the sums...
Page 27 - Blair's family ; and the author had not reckoned on the possibility of his own demise before his friend's funeral took place. Such things are always awkward when detected ; especially when done by a skilful politician.