Hand-book for the City of Montreal and Its Environs: Prepared for the Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Montreal, August, 1882Pub. for the local committee, 1882 - 143 pages |
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Page 17 - You are a grain of mustard-seed, that shall rise and grow till its branches overshadow the earth. You are few, but your work is the work of God. His smile is on you, and your children shall fill the land.
Page 74 - June 1875, when the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland...
Page 61 - So far as the eye reaches it dwells only upon what is magnificent. All the features of that landscape are grand. Below you spreads the city, which has less that is merely mean in it than any other city of our continent, and which is everywhere ennobled by stately civic edifices, adorned by tasteful churches, and skirted by fullfoliaged avenues of mansions and villas. Behind it rises the beautiful mountain, green with woods and gardens to its crest, and flanked on the east by an endless fertile plain,...
Page 16 - Maisonneuve sprang ashore, and fell on his knees. His followers imitated his example, and all joined their voices in enthusiastic songs of thanksgiving. Tents, baggage, arms, and stores were landed. An altar was...
Page 16 - Maisonneuve, a warlike figure, erect and tall, his men clustering around him — soldiers, sailors, artisans and laborers — all alike soldiers at need. They kneeled in reverent silence as the Host was raised aloft, and when the rite was over the priest turned and addressed them: "You are a grain of mustard seed, that shall rise and grow till its branches overshadow the earth.
Page 57 - The action and reaction constantly going on in a community containing an unusual number of earnest men of all conceivable shades of ecclesiastical opinion naturally excites a corresponding amount of zeal which has crystalised into stone and mortar.
Page 61 - Then these two mighty streams commingled flow past the city, lighting up the vast champaign country to the south, while upon the utmost southern verge, as on the northern, rise the cloudy summits of far-off mountains. As our travellers gazed upon all this grandeur, their hearts were humbled to the tacit admission that the colonial metropolis was not only worthy of its seat, but had traits of a solid prosperity not excelled by any of the abounding and boastful cities of the Republic. Long before they...
Page 97 - Pres, in Paris, received, or thought he received, a divine revelation to found upon the island of Montreal a society of priests for the propagation of the true faith in the new world. Led by various mystical guidings, he formed the acquaintance of Dauversiere, a receiver of taxes in Anjou, whose mind had been prepared in a similar manner. These two men resolved to found upon...
Page 135 - Eight days of varied horrors passed ! What boots it now to tell How the pale tenants of the Fort heroically fell ? Hunger, and thirst, and sleeplessness — death's ghastly aids — at length Marred and defaced their comely forms, and quelled their giant strength. The end draws nigh — they yearn to die — one glorious rally more For the dear sake of Ville-Marie, and all will soon be o'er ; Sure of the martyr's golden Crown, they shrink not from the Cross, Life yielded for the land they love they...