The Autobiography of John Galt, Volumen2Cochrane and M'Crone, 1833 - 412 páginas |
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Página 358 - Do you think I could care any thing for that lame 'boy ? " ' This speech, as he himself described it, was like a shot through his heart. Though late at night when he heard it, he instantly darted out of the house, and scarcely knowing whither he ran, never stopped till he found himself at Newstead.
Página 59 - I do not suppose that the sublimity of the occasion was unfelt by the others, for I noticed that after the tree fell, there was a funereal pause, as when the coffin is lowered into the grave ; it was, however, of short duration, for the doctor pulled a flask of whisky from his bosom, and we drank prosperity to the city of Guelph. "The name was chosen in compliment to the lioyal Family, both because I thought it auspicious in itself and because I could not recollect that it had ever been before used...
Página 135 - Upon the whole, I beg leave most respectfully to state, to the Company my decided opinion that Mr. Gait's agency has been conducted with sound judgment, a proper regard to economy and the interests of the Company; that his proceedings have promoted their best interests; and, I believe, the Company cannot more effectually promote their own views than by delegating to him the most ample discretionary powers.18 What the Directors thought of the report "is not known," Gait remarked in a note appended...
Página 226 - When very young, I wished to write a book that would be for Scotland what the Vicar of Wakefield is for England...
Página 60 - I am very serious ; for although Guelph is not so situated as ever to become celebrated for foreign commerce, the location possesses many advantages independent of being situated on a tongue of land surrounded by a clear and rapid stream. It...
Página 57 - Je swape" the first land for the lot on which he was now settled. " With his assistance we reached the skirts of the wild to which we were going, and were informed in the cabin of a squatter that all our men had gone forward. By this time it began to rain, but undeterred by that circumstance, we resumed our journey in the pathless wood. About sunset, dripping wet, we arrived near the spot we were in quest of, a shanty, which an Indian, who had committed murder, had raised as a refuge for himself....
Página 54 - ... likely to be, at eras which betokened destiny, like the launching of a vessel, or "the birth of an enterprize, of which a horoscope might be cast. "The founding of a town was certainly one of these, and accordingly I appointed a national holiday for the ceremony, which secretly I was determined "should be so celebrated as to be held in remembrance, and yet so conducted as "to be only apparently accidentally impressive.
Página 79 - Dunlop, who had guided the land exploring party already alluded to, nor were we left long in doubt, for on approaching the place, we met a canoe having on board a strange combination of Indians, velveteens and whiskers, and discovered within the roots of the red hair, the living features of the Doctor. About an hour after having crossed the river's bar of eight feet, we came to a beautiful anchorage of fourteen feet water, in an uncommonly pleasant small basin. The place had been selected by the...
Página 358 - This speech, as he himself described it, was like a shot through his heart. Though late at night when he heard it, he instantly darted out of the house, and, scarcely knowing whither he ran, never stopped till he found himself at Newstead. The picture which he has drawn of this youthful love, in one of the most interesting of his poems,