The Life and Speeches of Hon. George Brown |
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... once meeting the issue challenged by the highest authority in the land . The field so invitingly open for press and orator was at once taken possession of by the new - comer ; and very soon the name of George Brown was identified with ...
... once meeting the issue challenged by the highest authority in the land . The field so invitingly open for press and orator was at once taken possession of by the new - comer ; and very soon the name of George Brown was identified with ...
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... once been a liberal M. P. , and who found his well known inordinate vanity gratified by defending the usurping Governor . Some were written by a reverend gentleman whom few would have sus- pected of a willingness to defend conduct like ...
... once been a liberal M. P. , and who found his well known inordinate vanity gratified by defending the usurping Governor . Some were written by a reverend gentleman whom few would have sus- pected of a willingness to defend conduct like ...
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... once lead him to defend the person of the Governor - General , but he felt that a far more important interest was at stake . The question whether a constitutional system of government , with ministers responsible to parliament , could ...
... once lead him to defend the person of the Governor - General , but he felt that a far more important interest was at stake . The question whether a constitutional system of government , with ministers responsible to parliament , could ...
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... once , and show from facts , if they can , wherein we did wrong as the organ of the late administration . We were not ignorant of their errors , we were not blind to their foibles ; but we are bound to say , now that we are in ...
... once , and show from facts , if they can , wherein we did wrong as the organ of the late administration . We were not ignorant of their errors , we were not blind to their foibles ; but we are bound to say , now that we are in ...
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... once committed , their political success is linked with the fate of those principles , and a protection is established at once against mere electioneering professions and infidelity to the public cause . Break down the barrier ; let men ...
... once committed , their political success is linked with the fate of those principles , and a protection is established at once against mere electioneering professions and infidelity to the public cause . Break down the barrier ; let men ...
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Page 186 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 355 - One commissioner shall be named by the President of the United States, one by Her Britannic Majesty, and a third by the President of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty conjointly; and in case the third commissioner shall not have been so named within a period of three months from the date when this article shall take effect, then the third commissioner shall be named by the representative at London of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.
Page 183 - God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his...
Page 355 - Treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII.
Page 291 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 81 - Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped, but in thy righteousness divine...
Page 182 - So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 155 - And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts, That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
Page 186 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 355 - XVIII of this Treaty ; and that any sum of money which the said Commissioners may so award shall be paid by the United States Government, in a gross sum, within twelve months after such award shall have been given.