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... honourable foe and a faithful personal friend . A long continuance of ill health , which necessitated many months ' enforced absence from any labour , has alone delayed the completion of this memoir , which at first the writer hoped to ...
... honourable foe and a faithful personal friend . A long continuance of ill health , which necessitated many months ' enforced absence from any labour , has alone delayed the completion of this memoir , which at first the writer hoped to ...
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... honourable , success on their side ; but the general impression was so strong against the Governor - General and his apologists , that they must have felt that such a course could never be attempted again , and that a return to sound ...
... honourable , success on their side ; but the general impression was so strong against the Governor - General and his apologists , that they must have felt that such a course could never be attempted again , and that a return to sound ...
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... honourable high - minded man , and must result in the disruption of the party whose policy and principles he was bound to sustain and promote . That Mr. Lafontaine's friends may have some- thing to say for him is very probable . That ...
... honourable high - minded man , and must result in the disruption of the party whose policy and principles he was bound to sustain and promote . That Mr. Lafontaine's friends may have some- thing to say for him is very probable . That ...
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... honourable ambition urging him to accept a seat in the parliament of his country . The truth was , however , that he was very reluctant to come forward as a candidate at this time . He was yet a young man ; the Globe required all his ...
... honourable ambition urging him to accept a seat in the parliament of his country . The truth was , however , that he was very reluctant to come forward as a candidate at this time . He was yet a young man ; the Globe required all his ...
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... Honourable gentlemen opposite knew well that the division in the reform camp alone gave them a chance at last election ; and I hesitate not to affirm that if an appeal should ever be made to the people of Upper Canada on the ques- tion ...
... Honourable gentlemen opposite knew well that the division in the reform camp alone gave them a chance at last election ; and I hesitate not to affirm that if an appeal should ever be made to the people of Upper Canada on the ques- tion ...
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