Papers and Records, Volumes 17 à 20

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Kraus Reprint Company, 1919
 

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Page 123 - Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person; There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 11 - Father, you have got the arms and ammunition which our great father sent for his red children. If you have an idea of going away, give them to us, and you may go and welcome, for us. Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit. We are determined to defend our lands, and if it be his will, we wish to leave our bones upon them.
Page 16 - Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly...
Page 16 - Regent's pleasure thereon, shall be entered in the general order book, and read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service.
Page 52 - Filipinos with the sword in one hand and the Bible in the other, or in South Africa allow children of the same Father to cut each other to pieces.
Page 34 - It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquired.
Page 63 - A letter to Her Majesty the British Queen, with letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg, and Sir George Arthur: to which is added an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial at Toronto in Upper Canada.
Page 40 - ... choristers bellow the tenor, as it were oxen ; bark a counterpart, as it were a kennel of dogs ; roar out a treble, as it were a sort of bulls ; and grunt out a base, as it were a number of hogs...
Page 27 - She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 17 - The measure was not sanctioned by any thing that I had ever seen or heard of; but I was fully convinced that it would succeed. The American backwoods-men ride better in the woods than any other people.

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