United States or Bangladesh ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This first appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834. He feigned that he was merely editing a treatise on The Philosophy of Clothes, the work of a German professor, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. This professor is really Carlyle himself; but the disguise gave him an excuse for writing in a strange style and for beginning many of his nouns with capitals, after the German fashion.
Their notes, too, reminded me, as they sang their morning song, of the mistletoe thrush. Presently they flew off together, some way up the stream. Turning round, I saw Chickango, Igubo, and several of Mr Fraser's blacks following, with guns in their hands, accompanied by a pack of dogs. I pointed out the birds to them. "'Noceros not far off," observed Chickango.
In our day we have seen China virtually governed by female sovereigns. Ananda the Miracle Worker. This story was originally published in Fraser's Magazine for August, 1872. A French translation appeared in the Revue Britannique for November, 1872. It should be needless to observe that Ananda, "the St.
That put him in the end book with me, to start with." "Did you know Cherry before you came to Kalvik?" Boyd asked, searching his companion's face with a look the man could not evade. "Only casual." "Where?" "Nome the year of the big rush." "During the mining troubles, eh?" "Sure." "What was she doing?" "Minding her business. She's good at that." Fraser's eyes had become green and fishy, as usual.
The Amerindians of the sea coast, opposite Vancouver Island, showed hostility to Fraser's party, as they had done farther north to Mackenzie. The Canadian voyageurs got alarmed, and told Fraser's assistant, John Stuart, that they had made up their minds to return by land across the Rocky Mountains.
He was the only survivor of an entire family who had been massacred by the blacks of Fraser's Island, and had grown up with but one object in life to kill every wild black he came across. For this purpose alone he had joined the Native Police, and there were dark tales whispered of what he had done.
In the hotel lobby below he encountered the newspaper reporter who had fallen under Fraser's spell upon their first arrival from the North. The man greeted him eagerly. "How d'y'do, Mr. Emerson. Can you give me any news about the fisheries?" "No!" "I thought there might be something new bearing on my story." "Indeed! So you are the chap who wrote that article some time ago, eh?" "Yes, sir.
The gift of a famous brule guenle had propitiated the simple Jersey gardener, whose stout boy rejoiced in a new leather jacket, almost a gift, and the second man, Andrew Fraser's reinforcement, a famous drinker, was soon a nightly companion of "Alois Vautier" at the one little "public," down under the scarped hill at Rizel Bay.
By Alexander Whitelaw. Edinburgh, 1848. Fraser's Magazine, March, 1849. "Sacred and Legendary Art." By Mrs. Jameson. 2 vols. London. 1848, Longman and Co. Since this was written, Mrs. Jameson's volume on the Legends of the Madonna has succeeded excellently in giving us, if not a complete, yet still a readable and modest picture of medieval Mariolatry. We are sorry to see, however, that Mrs.
Fraser's letter of the 13th, I have merely to add that the testimony of Governor Dallas is important, and that the report of Professor Hind appeared to me to contain valuable evidence and reasoning, which can be tested by the further explorations of a geographical commission, for which purpose either Professor Hind, or Sir William Logan, or Mr.
Word Of The Day