History of Canada: From the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union Year 1840-41, Volume 2R. Worthington, 1866 |
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History of Canada: From the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union ..., Volume 2 François-Xavier Garneau Affichage du livre entier - 1866 |
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Page 306 - His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Page 265 - To the peaceable, unoffending inhabitant it brings neither danger nor difficulty. I come to find enemies, not to make them ; I come to protect, not to injure you. "Separated by an immense ocean and an extensive wilderness from Great Britain...
Page 131 - We are too well acquainted with the liberality of sentiment distinguishing your nation, to imagine that difference of religion will prejudice you against a hearty amity with us.
Page 265 - Many of your fathers fought for the freedom and independence we now enjoy. Being children, therefore, of the same family with us, and heirs to the same heritage ; the arrival of an army of friends must be hailed by you with a cordial welcome.
Page 85 - ... liberty ; for both which they were to expect your Majesty's gracious protection. It seems a necessary consequence that all those laws by which that property was created, defined, and secured must be continued to them. To introduce any other, as Mr. Yorke, and Mr. De Grey emphatically expressed it, tend to confound and subvert rights instead of supporting them.
Page 265 - ... the stormy period of the revolution — that liberty which has raised us to an elevated rank among the nations of the world, and which...
Page 131 - Catholic and Protestant States, living in the utmost concord and peace with one another, and thereby enabled, ever since they bravely vindicated their freedom, to defy and defeat every tyrant that has invaded them.
Page 214 - No motion shall be debated or put unless the same be in writing and seconded ; when a motion is seconded, it shall be read in English and in French by the Speaker, if he is master of the two languages...
Page 233 - So much of intemperate heat has been manifested in all your proceedings, and you have shown such a prolonged and disrespectful attention to matters submitted to your consideration by the other branches of the Legislature that whatever might be the moderation and forbearance on their parts, a general good understanding is scarcely to be looked for without a new Assembly.
Page 241 - Is it for myself, then, that I should oppress you? For what should I oppress you ? Is it from ambition? What can you give me ? Is it for power ? Alas! my good friends ! with a life ebbing not slowly to its period, under the pressure of disease acquired in the service of my country, I look only to pass, what it may please God to suffer to remain of it, in the comfort of retirement among my friends. I remain among you only in obedience to the commands of my king. What power can...