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Alexander Mackenzie. PREFACE . In undertaking to prepare a memoir of the late HoN . GEORGE BROWN , the writer desired to present to the public a faithful representation of his character in a personal and public sense ; but mainly to show ...
Alexander Mackenzie. PREFACE . In undertaking to prepare a memoir of the late HoN . GEORGE BROWN , the writer desired to present to the public a faithful representation of his character in a personal and public sense ; but mainly to show ...
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... late as 1854 Lord Derby made use of the following language while discussing proposed reforms in the Canadian constitution : 66 Nothing like a free and well regulated monarchy could exist for a single moment under such a constitution as ...
... late as 1854 Lord Derby made use of the following language while discussing proposed reforms in the Canadian constitution : 66 Nothing like a free and well regulated monarchy could exist for a single moment under such a constitution as ...
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... late , period commanded the support of English ministers . So late as 1873 we find Lord Kimberley gravely telling Lord Dufferin that he was to act without the advice of his ministers when he deemed it necessary . Mr. Brown did not ...
... late , period commanded the support of English ministers . So late as 1873 we find Lord Kimberley gravely telling Lord Dufferin that he was to act without the advice of his ministers when he deemed it necessary . Mr. Brown did not ...
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... late Peter Brown , who lived many years in Toronto ; his mother was a daughter of Mr. George Mackenzie , of Stornoway , in the Island of Lewis . Lord Brougham , in his autobiography , tells us that he believes he was indebted to the ...
... late Peter Brown , who lived many years in Toronto ; his mother was a daughter of Mr. George Mackenzie , of Stornoway , in the Island of Lewis . Lord Brougham , in his autobiography , tells us that he believes he was indebted to the ...
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... late Judge Prince , at that time member for Essex . Mr. Prince , though only partially successful in the suit , admired Mr. Brown's ability , and became his fast friend , as the following sympathetic letter will abundantly show : · THE ...
... late Judge Prince , at that time member for Essex . Mr. Prince , though only partially successful in the suit , admired Mr. Brown's ability , and became his fast friend , as the following sympathetic letter will abundantly show : · THE ...
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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 182 - 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 21 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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 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 355 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any Commissioner, or in the event of any Commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy.
Page 291 - He was right. What was conjecture with him is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that great rock stood and stands may be doubted.
Page 183 - O ! 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 of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 355 - States conjointly ; and in case the third Commissioner shall not have been so named within a period of three months from the date...
Page 101 - The Government are prepared to pledge themselves to bring in a measure next session for the purpose of removing existing difficulties by introducing the federal principle into Canada, coupled with such provisions as will permit the Maritime Provinces and the North- West Territory to be incorporated into the same system of government.