Word: ownly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Cambridge Chronicle publishes the following astonishing piece of news: "Now if you will imagine eight strong fellows stepping from seat to seat and taking their places; the captain, cigarette in hand, calling "Ready!" "Row!" and then the steady splash of oars for a long, long time in the flickering...
...willing, and considered the advantages of union from that standpoint. He described the wealth and resources of the country, at the same time showing that we are rapidly exhausting our own country in the resources in which Canada is rich; so that it will soon be a question of owning Canada or pouring our money into her treasury...
The study of Homer is not a study of literature: it is a study of life in all its phases. Homer saw an idealized world, and yet the reality of the picture he has drawn forces us to the conclusion that he has depicted the life of his own age...
Dr. McKenzie, who preached in the Chapel last evening, took his text from Genesis xxiv, 12: "Send me good speed this day." The preacher said that in life many things were determined by chance. The Bible narratives as well as the history of our own lives are full of instances...
"Mrs. Lawnette and Barney" is a powerful story of a lad on the verge of insanity and his effort to protect his benefactress from his own violence.