The Life and Speeches of Hon. George Brown |
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... legislative programme . The attempt to maintain the old system under a new and attractive name was continued with varying success until the final rupture with Sir Charles Metcalfe , a few months after his arrival in Canada , by the ...
... legislative programme . The attempt to maintain the old system under a new and attractive name was continued with varying success until the final rupture with Sir Charles Metcalfe , a few months after his arrival in Canada , by the ...
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... legislative power and the fountain of administrative authority to a secondary place in the government of the country . Mr. Brown's advent to Canada at this juncture was , under the existing circumstances , a great accession to the ...
... legislative power and the fountain of administrative authority to a secondary place in the government of the country . Mr. Brown's advent to Canada at this juncture was , under the existing circumstances , a great accession to the ...
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... legislative work of the province . The Draper administration managed to obtain a bare majority , and maintained a ... legislators to give way . Every one of the charges brought against you are , in point of law , gross slanders , and I ...
... legislative work of the province . The Draper administration managed to obtain a bare majority , and maintained a ... legislators to give way . Every one of the charges brought against you are , in point of law , gross slanders , and I ...
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... legislative Act passed during the existence of the union provoked so keen a controversy or gave rise to so much violence and agitation . The loss of the election fifteen months previous to this time would seem to have embittered the ...
... legislative Act passed during the existence of the union provoked so keen a controversy or gave rise to so much violence and agitation . The loss of the election fifteen months previous to this time would seem to have embittered the ...
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... legislative 66 measures affecting the body politic - and that when they fail to carry any such measures through Parliament , or when the opposition carries any vital measure not by them deemed to be demanded by the neces- " sities of ...
... legislative 66 measures affecting the body politic - and that when they fail to carry any such measures through Parliament , or when the opposition carries any vital measure not by them deemed to be demanded by the neces- " sities of ...
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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.