The Life and Speeches of Hon. George Brown |
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... favoured him as a great popular advocate ; and his bitterest enemies will equally admit that he made a most admirable use of his abilities and influence ; by which he left his mark in inef- faceable lines on the history of his adopted ...
... favoured him as a great popular advocate ; and his bitterest enemies will equally admit that he made a most admirable use of his abilities and influence ; by which he left his mark in inef- faceable lines on the history of his adopted ...
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... favour- able to the enterprise , there is equally little doubt that the immediate success of the new journal was owing chiefly to the great ability and immense energy of the editor - in - chief . At this time , Sir Chas . Metcalfe was ...
... favour- able to the enterprise , there is equally little doubt that the immediate success of the new journal was owing chiefly to the great ability and immense energy of the editor - in - chief . At this time , Sir Chas . Metcalfe was ...
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... favour of national school education free from sectarian teaching , and available without charge to every child in the province . I desire to see efficient grammar schools established in each county ; and that the fees of these ...
... favour of national school education free from sectarian teaching , and available without charge to every child in the province . I desire to see efficient grammar schools established in each county ; and that the fees of these ...
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... favours . Let our contemporaries leave vague vituperation for 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 ...
... favours . Let our contemporaries leave vague vituperation for 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 ...
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... favour of it . For some time after the government was formed , it was hoped that the French Cana- dians would give us their aid in the settlement of the ecclesiastical griev- ances of Upper Canada , but when the trial came in the ...
... favour of it . For some time after the government was formed , it was hoped that the French Cana- dians would give us their aid in the settlement of the ecclesiastical griev- ances of Upper Canada , but when the trial came in the ...
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