Emigration and Colonization: Embodying the Results of a Mission to Great Britain and Ireland, During the Years 1839, 1840, and 1842; Including a Correspondence with Many Distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen, Several of the Governors of Canada, Etc.; Descriptive Accounts of Various Parts of the British American Provinces; with Observations, Statistical, Political, Etc |
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... felt it to be my duty , both on public and private grounds , to compile this volume , hoping that it may prove instrumental in the organizing of some public Association for the same great national ends . Under the circumstances of ...
... felt it to be my duty , both on public and private grounds , to compile this volume , hoping that it may prove instrumental in the organizing of some public Association for the same great national ends . Under the circumstances of ...
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... felt for this remote colony , the manifestation of that interest was exclusively confined to those who were immediately connected , or had dealings with it . The many remembered it merely as the frequent battle - ground of hostile ...
... felt for this remote colony , the manifestation of that interest was exclusively confined to those who were immediately connected , or had dealings with it . The many remembered it merely as the frequent battle - ground of hostile ...
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... felt it my duty to address Mr. Bermingham . I received from him a cordial letter of thanks for my communication , which was afterwards printed in pam- phlet form , and widely disseminated by the Canada Company . On returning to Dublin ...
... felt it my duty to address Mr. Bermingham . I received from him a cordial letter of thanks for my communication , which was afterwards printed in pam- phlet form , and widely disseminated by the Canada Company . On returning to Dublin ...
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... felt himself compelled to declare it as his decided opinion , that the only and most effec- tual cure of the great evils under which the people were suf- fering , was a well organized system of Emigration ; and in that opinion , he ...
... felt himself compelled to declare it as his decided opinion , that the only and most effec- tual cure of the great evils under which the people were suf- fering , was a well organized system of Emigration ; and in that opinion , he ...
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... felt proud in bearing my testimony to the worth and value of the Scotch settlers in Canada . Of all those who were called into the field of battle to defend British supremacy in North America , there were no hearts that stirred with ...
... felt proud in bearing my testimony to the worth and value of the Scotch settlers in Canada . Of all those who were called into the field of battle to defend British supremacy in North America , there were no hearts that stirred with ...
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Page 361 - 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.
Page 126 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 371 - ... motion. She continued to move on. All were still incredulous. None seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses. We left the fair city of New York; we passed through the romantic and ever-varying scenery of the highlands ; we descried the clustering houses of Albany; we reached its shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted, if it could be done again ; or if done, it was...
Page 73 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 124 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 31 - To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Senate...
Page 74 - ... remained unornamented and unimproved, if men had nicely compared the effect of a single stroke of the chisel with the pyramid to be raised, or of a single impression of the spade with the mountain to be levelled.
Page 357 - ... without it, we could not have manufactures, and we should not have commerce. These all stand together, but they stand together, like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that largest is agriculture. Let us remember, too, that we live in a country of small farms, and free-hold tenements; a country, in which men cultivate with their own hands, their own fee-simple acres ; drawing not only their subsistence, but also their spirit of independence, and manly freedom from the ground...
Page 357 - When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Page 327 - Francisco is situated, as will contain an area of four square leagues; said tract being bounded on the north and east by the Bay of San Francisco, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the south by a due east and west line drawn so as to include the area aforesaid...