The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volume 2James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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Page 72
... existing authorities of the upper province , naturally looked to acquire in their new country at least an equal , if not a superior standing to that which they had left . But they soon found that while in Lower Canada their professional ...
... existing authorities of the upper province , naturally looked to acquire in their new country at least an equal , if not a superior standing to that which they had left . But they soon found that while in Lower Canada their professional ...
Page 76
... existing anarchy , and the exasperation to which they had been inflamed by their leaders , scarcely an act of wanton cruelty was perpetrated , nor did they attempt to make the public disturbances a means of private revenge . Atrocious ...
... existing anarchy , and the exasperation to which they had been inflamed by their leaders , scarcely an act of wanton cruelty was perpetrated , nor did they attempt to make the public disturbances a means of private revenge . Atrocious ...
Page 77
... existing constitution could for the present be secured only by coercive measures . In Upper Canada , the result had been exactly the reverse : it had shown that in that province the people were almost universally attached to the mother ...
... existing constitution could for the present be secured only by coercive measures . In Upper Canada , the result had been exactly the reverse : it had shown that in that province the people were almost universally attached to the mother ...
Page 83
... existing in Lower Canada , Mr Poulett Thomson left Montreal for the upper province on the 19th November , and after a few hours ' delay at Kingston , arrived at Toronto on the 21st of the same month . The excitement which had been ...
... existing in Lower Canada , Mr Poulett Thomson left Montreal for the upper province on the 19th November , and after a few hours ' delay at Kingston , arrived at Toronto on the 21st of the same month . The excitement which had been ...
Page 84
... existing assembly rather than resort to a disso- lution , and thus submit the question of a union to an assembly elected with especial reference to this matter . But after the most ample consideration , it was thought better not to add ...
... existing assembly rather than resort to a disso- lution , and thus submit the question of a union to an assembly elected with especial reference to this matter . But after the most ample consideration , it was thought better not to add ...
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