University of Toronto Monthly, Volume 8

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1907

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Page 315 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 120 - GRACE. SOME hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it ; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thanket. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON. PEG Nicholson was a gude bay mare, As ever trode on airn ; But now she's floating down the Nith, An' past the mouth o
Page 113 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 29 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 155 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 270 - Japan and Russia reciprocally engage not to obstruct any general measures common to all countries, which China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria.
Page 286 - The meeting then proceeded to the election of Officers for the ensuing year, when the following List was delivered in by the scrutineers : viz.
Page 67 - ... certain stages you may perhaps wonder whether there is any such thing as established truth. You may find yourselves again and again breathing an atmosphere that seems too strong for you, and fear lest you may not survive. I shall not be surprised if for a period of your student life some of you may be " wandering between two worlds— the one dead, the other powerless to be born.
Page 185 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Page 156 - Memorials of Charles Darwin : a Collection of Manuscripts, Portraits. Medals, Books, and Natural History Specimens to commemorate the Centenary of his Birth and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of

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