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...lf English ancestry. One such poem is the frequently anthologized The Song My Paddle Sings. Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature....

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...sity. CYMBELINE (written about 1609) DRAMATIS PERSONAE CYMBELINE: king of Britain. CLOTEN: son to the Queen by a former husband. POSTHUMUS LEONAT... ...: Sicilius Leonatus, Mother, First Brother, Second Brother, Jupiter. SCENE: Britain; Rome. CYMBELINE ACT I SCENE I: Britain. The garden of Cymbeline... ... [Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt. CLOTEN: You’ll go with us? First Lord: I’ll attend your lo... ..., a Dutchman, and a Spaniard.] IACHIMO: Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as ... ... must be weighed rather by her value than his own, words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter. Frenchman: And then his banishment. IACHIMO:... ... hand com parison—had been something too fair and too good for any lady in Britain. If she went before others I have seen, as that diamond of yours ... ...3 attempt it against any lady in the world. POSTHUMUS LEONATUS: You are a great deal abused in too bold a persuasion; and I doubt not you sustain w... ...thou not learn’d me how To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so That our great king himself doth woo me oft For my confections? Having thus far pr... ...ing me word she loves my son, I’ll tell thee on the instant thou art then As great as is thy master, greater, for His fortunes all lie speechless and ...

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...rything he could muster in the way of personal and professional resources. He was well suited to the sort of pioneer labor that faced him. He had a great appetite and aptitude for spadework of an archival kind, locating, acquiring, and organizing collections of documents. His use of materials was marked by a quite outstanding scrupulosity with regard to matters of fact....

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...hed new light on the history of the islands. For this purpose, extensive research has been carried on in the national archives of the United States, Great Britain, and France, and minor investigations have been made in the archives of Belgium and Mexico and in a number of libraries and collections in the United States. Many thousand pages of transcripts have been obtaine...

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...ion in the Pacific. Steamships were soon placed in operation along the American coast, and tentative plans were made for steamship lines to cross the great ocean to Hawaii, to the Orient, and to the British colonies in Australia and New Zealand. Projects for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States were another result of the same expansion movement, and there appears ...

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... -- The New King. 33 -- Administrative Organization. 36 -- General Policy. 37 -- Mission of W. L. Lee. 39 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. 66 -- The Queen's Hospital. 69 -- Leprosy. 72 -- Immigration....

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...arning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not following my own incli...

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...estors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sa... ...mud, but she adds it to her former treasures. For I yield to those who are greater and more eloquent than myself, who, kindled with generous ardour, h... ...no knowledge, nor gave any information in their books about this island of Britain. But I have got together all that I could find as well from the ann... ...ited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man consul. Taken from the sout... .... 20. Cair meguaid (Meivod). * This list of the Roman emperors who visited Britain, is omitted in many of the MSS. 1 V .R. T wenty-eight, twenty-one.... ... people of God. The Egyptians who were left, seeing the destruction of the great men of their nation, and fearing lest he should possess him- self of ... ...the Tyrrhene Sea, landed in Spain, where they continued many years, having greatly increased and multiplied. Thence, a thou- sand and two years after ... ...e of Severus.* 25. The fifth was Constantius the father of Constantine the Great. He died in Britain; his sepulchre, as it appears by the inscription ... ...es of independence. * This district, in modern language, extended from the great St. Bernard in Piedmont to Cantavic in Picardy, and from Picardy to t...

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...ip of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our parents. ―As I have said, on my voyage I was able to read the works of the great,... ...sages have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great ... ...new birds access to the traditional nest building materials. To his surprise they built identical nests with identical knots to those of their great-... ...e universe and everything that had happened up until now, he could predict without error what would happen in the future. So one of the West‘s great ... ...rol. It may be the result of factors in our unconscious minds that we are not consciously aware of. Popularizing this idea was perhaps Freud‘s greate... ...effective politics.‖ —―Then there is always a rationalization to justify people‘s behavior. For the soccer hooligans it might be that Britai... ... somewhat on religion. Savanorola‘s preaching did much to reduce the artistic and intellectual prowess in Renaissance Florence. Today 20% of Britai...