A Chronology of Montreal and of Canada: From A.D. 1752 to A.D. 1893, Including Commercial Statistics, Historic Sketches of Commercial Corporations and Firms, and Advertisements ... Together with Calendars of Every Year from A.D. 1752 to A.D. 1925

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J. Lovell, 1893 - 501 pagini

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Pagina 29 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union. But no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Pagina 22 - Taxation and representation are inseparable. This position is founded on the laws of nature. It is more. It is itself an eternal law of nature, for whatever is a man's own is absolutely his own. No man has a right to take it from him without his consent, either expressed by himself or his representatives. Whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury. Whoever does it, commits a robbery.
Pagina 33 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
Pagina 47 - to attempt to amalgamate two populations composed of races of men diverse in language, laws and customs, was a complete absurdity " ; and he consequently approved of the division.
Pagina 15 - ... for illustrious deeds ; his victory, one of the most momentous in the annals of mankind, gave to the English tongue and the institutions of the Germanic race the unexplored and seemingly infinite west and north. He crowded into a few hours actions that would have given lustre to length of life ; and filling his day with greatness, completed it before its noon.
Pagina 65 - Walking, not long since, near the machinery of a mill, I was caught and carried between two cog-wheels, and every bone in my body broken to pieces. A phial of Ramrod's Tincture of Gridiron being thrown into the mill-pond, I found myself restored, and as whole and sound as a roach.
Pagina 251 - Boston, Merchants National Bank ; Chicago, American Exchange National Bank ; St. Paul, Minn., First National Bank; Detroit, First National Bank ; Buffalo, Bank of Buffalo; San Francisco, Anglo-Californian Bank.
Pagina 427 - Trusty and Right Well-Beloved Cousin and Councillor the Right Honourable Sir JOHN CAMPBELL HAMILTON-GORDON, Earl of Aberdeen ; Viscount Formartine, Baron Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, in the Peerage of Scotland ; Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ; Baronet of Nova Scotia, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of St. Michel and St. George, etc., etc., Governor General of Canada.
Pagina 80 - I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada...
Pagina 71 - ... or by frivolous contests upon trivial matters of form, that time and those talents, to which, within your walls, the public have an exclusive title. This abuse of your functions you have preferred to the high and important duties which you owe to your sovereign and to your constituents; and you have, thereby, been forced to neglect the consideration of matters of moment and necessity which were before you, while you have, at the same time, virtually prevented the introduction of such others as...

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