The Cromaboo Mail Carrier: A Canadian Love StoryÉditeur non identifié, 1878 - 296 pages Murder mystery based on the area of Drumbo at that time. Copies of the publication were withdrawn by its author due to the uproar caused by distressed local citizens. |
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The Cromaboo Mail Carrier: A Canadian Love Story James Thomas (Mary Leslie) Jones Limited preview - 1973 |
The Cromaboo Mail Carrier: A Canadian Love Story James Thomas (Mary Leslie) Jones No preview available - 1973 |
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Popular passages
Page 287 - A rest for weary pilgrims found, " They softly lie, and sweetly sleep
Page 68 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 25 - When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him ? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: 30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Page 283 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 33 - Whatever passes as a cloud between The mental eye of faith and things unseen, Causing that brighter world to disappear, Or seem less lovely, and its hope less dear ; This is our world, our idol, though it bear Affection's impress, or devotion's air.
Page 62 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 25 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 96 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own.
Page 254 - And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Of man's maturer age, Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, And stormy passion's rage.
Page 96 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires and not as it sorteth with the person. But to enumerate these things were endless ; I have given the rule where a man cannot fitly play his own part : if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.