The Rise of Canada: From Barbarism to Wealth and Civilization, Količina 1P. Sinclair, 1856 - 412 strani |
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Stran 202 - The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, any more in worldly happiness than in other things.
Stran 165 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.
Stran 60 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Stran 187 - After informing you that so fine a ship as the GUERRIERE, commanded by an able and experienced officer, had been totally dismasted and otherwise cut to pieces, so as to make her not worth towing into port, in the short space of thirty minutes...
Stran 401 - That for defraying the arrears due on account of the established and customary charges of the administration of justice, and of the civil government of the said province...
Stran 137 - ... preparations were now directed. He collected from all the quarters where himself or his agents possessed influence all the ardent, restless, desperate, and disaffected persons who were ready for any enterprise analogous to their characters.
Stran 295 - ... the men carrying, besides their muskets, fascines, and some of them ladders. A dead silence prevailed until they approached within reach of the batteries, which commenced an incessant and destructive cannonade...
Stran 161 - One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to,day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures, and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.
Stran 380 - ... thousand souls (that is a number equal to one-fourth of the actual French population) have found their way to this Province, from Great Britain and Ireland, and of these scarcely one-twentieth part remains within its limits, the rest, with the exception of a small number who have settled in Upper Canada, having been induced by the foreign character of the country in which they had sought an asylum, and the discouragements they experienced, to try their fortunes in the United States.
Stran 33 - Sometimes they were deaf, sometimes dumb, sometimes blind, and often all this at once. Their tongues would be drawn down their throats, and then pull'd out upon their chins, to a prodigious length.