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... leader , made it most indispensable that some one should place on record the share he had in securing constitutional changes which made Canada a home of civil and religious equality and liberty , in such a manner as would do some.
... leader , made it most indispensable that some one should place on record the share he had in securing constitutional changes which made Canada a home of civil and religious equality and liberty , in such a manner as would do some.
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... leaders of the popular party were almost exclusively engaged in a battle with the powers of the day on specific grievances com- plained of , and consequently gave comparatively little attention to the advocacy of fundamental principles ...
... leaders of the popular party were almost exclusively engaged in a battle with the powers of the day on specific grievances com- plained of , and consequently gave comparatively little attention to the advocacy of fundamental principles ...
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... leaders up to this period , while the representatives of the Crown were either hostile to them or believed them inapplicable in their fulness to Canada . Lord John Russell announced at the time Mr. Poulett Thomson went out as ...
... leaders up to this period , while the representatives of the Crown were either hostile to them or believed them inapplicable in their fulness to Canada . Lord John Russell announced at the time Mr. Poulett Thomson went out as ...
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... leader . Hitherto , under the name of the new system , leading men among reformers did not hesitate about accepting office with men belonging to the opposite party without any security that their responsibility to parliament should take ...
... leader . Hitherto , under the name of the new system , leading men among reformers did not hesitate about accepting office with men belonging to the opposite party without any security that their responsibility to parliament should take ...
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... leader . They recalled former times when they sat by the flesh pots " and " did eat bread to the full , " and lamented the evil days and principles which brought them " forth into this ' wilderness , to kill the whole assembly with ...
... leader . They recalled former times when they sat by the flesh pots " and " did eat bread to the full , " and lamented the evil days and principles which brought them " forth into this ' wilderness , to kill the whole assembly with ...
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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.