 Without effecting the change so rapidly or so roughly as to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government to establish an English population, with...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 937de Great Britain. Parliament - 1886Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1895 - 588 pages
...people. In Lord Durham's opinion, ' the first and steady ' purpose of the British Government should be to establish ' an English population, with English...government to none but ' a decidedly English legislature.' As a matter of fact, Lord Durham entirely underrated the national instincts of the French Canadian... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1839 - 452 pages
...to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government...government to none but a decidedly English Legislature. It may be said that this is a hard measure to a conquered people ; that the French were originally... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1839 - 164 pages
...to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, if must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government...government to none but a decidedly English Legislature. It may be said that this is a hard measure to a conquered people ; that the French were originally... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...In 466 467 Lord Durham's opinion, " the first and steady purpose of the British government should be to establish an English population, with English laws...government to none but a decidedly English legislature." As a matter of fact, Lord Durham entirely underrated the national instincts of the French Canadian... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - 1852 - 362 pages
...as toshock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government...Government to none but a decidedly English Legislature." Able and sound reasoning follows this declaration, and Lord Durham shows that the French Canadian of... | |
 | 1920 - 914 pages
...no literature," would be absorbed, to their own good. Therefore, the sooner the better. It must "be the first and steady purpose of the British Government...government to none but a decidedly English legislature"; the "nationality of the FrenchCanadians" must be "obliterated." Mr. Laurier condemns D u rham's policy... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 656 pages
...to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British government...government to none but a decidedly English legislature. . . . The French Canadians are but the remains of an ancient colonization, and are, and ever must be,... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 648 pages
...welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the Bridsh government to establish an English population, with...government to none but a decidedly English legislature. . . . The French Canadians are but the remains of an ancient colonization, and are, and ever must be,... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 656 pages
...the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British g wernment to establish an English population, with English laws...government to none but a decidedly English legislature. . . . The French Canadians are but the remains of an ancient colonization, and are, and ever must be,... | |
 | John George Bourinot - 1884 - 814 pages
...of 1856. the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British government...language, in this province, and to trust its government to have but a decidedly English legislature." P. 110, et seq. 1 See chap. v. 7 Leg. Ass. J. (1853), 944... | |
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