An Autumn Tour in the United States and CanadaH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 180 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
Página 26
... kind of education , of both of which I shall speak presently . The travelled Ameri- can is as superior to his untravelled compatriot as is the travelled Englishman , and if there are but too many amongst them who have seen every 26 AN ...
... kind of education , of both of which I shall speak presently . The travelled Ameri- can is as superior to his untravelled compatriot as is the travelled Englishman , and if there are but too many amongst them who have seen every 26 AN ...
Página 46
... kind of thing must be generally going on , owing to the short tenure of the various offices . The President , as I have said , is elected . every four years , the every six years , the tives every two years . The Legislatures of ...
... kind of thing must be generally going on , owing to the short tenure of the various offices . The President , as I have said , is elected . every four years , the every six years , the tives every two years . The Legislatures of ...
Página 47
... kind under Government is as keen as in France . Moreover , it is so generally as serted , that the assertion may be assumed to have considerable truth in it , that most public men , to use a vulgar expression , ' feather their nests ...
... kind under Government is as keen as in France . Moreover , it is so generally as serted , that the assertion may be assumed to have considerable truth in it , that most public men , to use a vulgar expression , ' feather their nests ...
Página 53
... kind of aristocracy — men well educated , of good means , with leisure to cultivate or foster art , science or literature and those refinements and graces of life which constitute the great charm of good society , and animated by a ...
... kind of aristocracy — men well educated , of good means , with leisure to cultivate or foster art , science or literature and those refinements and graces of life which constitute the great charm of good society , and animated by a ...
Página 65
... kind of govern- ment for every race , simply because under it we have become a great and prosperous nation . I might point out that even with us it has certain inherent defects , some of which are even now only beginning to be felt ...
... kind of govern- ment for every race , simply because under it we have become a great and prosperous nation . I might point out that even with us it has certain inherent defects , some of which are even now only beginning to be felt ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admiration American amongst ARMY Author baggage beautiful Boston bridge caisson Canada cars cent certainly character charges charm Chicago Church civil cloth Cornhill cost course Crown 8vo Demy 8vo dollars East River Edition engineering England English English draught Englishman everywhere Fcap feeling feet Gazette Government House Hudson Illustrated India inferior institutions interest Iowa Island labour Lake lands late London ment miles military mineral Mississippi Missouri Missouri River mixed mathematics Montreal navigation Nebraska Negro Nicholas Hotel nitro-glycerine North offices Pacific Paternoster Row POEMS political politicians population prairies present President Price race railway reader river Roorkee Royal Engineer scenery shillings social society South Southern steamer story streets struggle superior things thought ticket tion tone town train traveller United Universal Suffrage Victoria Bridge vols West whole York
Pasajes populares
Página 18 - Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Página 10 - FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children. With 300 Engravings, New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 5 - Field and Forest Rambles of a Naturalist in New Brunswick. With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern Canada.
Página 20 - BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Brave Men's Footsteps. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "Men who have Risen.
Página 11 - YOUMANS (Eliza A.). An Essay on the Culture of the Observing Powers of Children, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP, Author of " Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,
Página 12 - Second edition. Large crown 8vo. Cloth, price 7*. 6d, SMITH (Edward), MD, LL.B., FRS Health and Disease, as Influenced by the Daily, Seasonal, and other Cyclical Changes in the Human System. A New Edition.
Página 13 - Makes one understand how going round the world is to be done in the quickest and pleasantest manner, and how the brightest and most cheerful of travellers did it with eyes wide open and keen attention all on the alert, with ready sympathies, with the happiest facility of hitting upon the most interesting features of nature and the most interesting characteristics of man, and all for its own sake." — Spectator. " We can only commend, which we do very heartily, an eminently sensible and readable...
Página 28 - Tales of the Zenana ; or, A Nuwab's Leisure Hours. By the Author of " Pandurang Hari." With a Preface by Lord Stanley of Alderley. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 2is.
Página 10 - It is but rarely that a school-book appears which is at once so novel in plan, so successful in execution, and so suited to the general want, as to command universal and unqualified approbation, but such has been the case with Miss Youmans
Página 29 - FICTION. 33. 6d. per Volume. IT is intended in this Series to produce books of such merit that readers will care to preserve them on their shelves. They are well printed on good paper, handsomely bound, with a Frontispiece, and are sold at the moderate price of 3s.