Portraits of British Americans, Volume 3

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W. Notman, 1868 - Biography
Contains photographic portraits of prominent Canadians

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Page 65 - That in order to preserve between the different branches of the Provincial Parliament that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the Province, the chief advisers of the representative of the Sovereign, constituting a Provincial Administration under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives of the people...
Page 280 - And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.
Page 280 - Whate'er the stranger's caste or creed, Pundit or papist, saint or sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself and dinner. If, when he...
Page 196 - I know that my Redeemer liveth. And though after my skin — worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
Page 166 - And if it shall happen the same Church, or any member thereof, to take any hurt or hindrance by reason of your negligence, ye know the greatness of the fault, and also the horrible punishment that will ensue.
Page 167 - In the year, 1807, the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of St.
Page 165 - ... at the end of the last and at the beginning of the present century.
Page 191 - Many will remember with what unalloyed happiness he adapted his conversation to their capacity, as well as the exuberant joy with which his presence was looked forward to and greeted by them. He knew how to combine the offices of a Bishop and a friend, and he set no light value on the influence for good which might be exerted by one who could, in his life and conversation, shew the truth of the Psalmist's experience, that the ways of religion are 'ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are...
Page 280 - And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking. And when religious sects ran mad He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad It will not be improved by burning.
Page 142 - Not many days have elapsed since we assembled on this spot for the same purpose as that which now calls us together — the choice of Representatives. The opportunity of that choice being caused by a great national calamity, the decease of that beloved Sovereign who had reigned over the inhabitants of this country since the day they became British Subjects, it is impossible not to express the...

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