Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840, 第 2 卷Longmans, Green and Company, 1906 |
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第 324 頁 - The bench, the magistracy, the high offices of the Episcopal Church, and a great part of the legal profession, are filled by the adherents of this party: by grant or purchase, they have acquired nearly the whole of the waste lands of the Province ; they are all-powerful in the chartered banks, and, till lately, shared among themselves almost exclusively all offices of trust and profit.
第 334 頁 - Such an union would at once decisively settle the question of races ; it would enable all the Provinces to co-operate for all common purposes ; and, above all, it would form a great and powerful people, possessing the means of securing good and responsible government for itself, and which, under the protection of the British Empire, might in some measure counterbalance the preponderant and increasing influence of the United States on the American continent.
第 169 頁 - I am persuaded," and afterwards he himself recalled his prediction to the notice of the British ministry, " England will ere long repent of having removed the only check that could keep her colonies in awe. They stand no longer in need of her protection ; she will call on them to contribute towards supporting the burdens they have helped to bring on her ; and they will answer by striking off all dependence.
第 315 頁 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
第 335 頁 - If we wish to prevent the extension of this influence, it can only be done by raising up for the North American colonist some nationality of his own...
第 278 頁 - From the very commencement of my task, the minutest details of my administration have been exposed to incessant criticism, in a spirit which has evinced an entire ignorance of the state of this country, and of the only mode in which the supremacy of the British Crown can here be upheld and exercised. Those who have, in the British Legislature, systematically depreciated my powers, and the Ministers of the Crown, by their tacit acquiescence therein, have produced the effect of making it too clear...
第 275 頁 - Ordinance made under colour of an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, 'An Act to make temporary Provision for the Government of Lower Canada...
第 317 頁 - English they ascribe these wrongs, and nourish against both an indiscriminating and eternal animosity. Nor have the English inhabitants forgotten in their triumph the terror with which they suddenly saw themselves surrounded by an insurgent majority, and the incidents which alone appeared to save them from the unchecked domination of their antagonists. They find themselves still a minority in the midst of a hostile and...
第 277 頁 - My aim was to elevate the province of Lower Canada to a thoroughly British character, to link its people to the sovereignty of Britain, by making them all participators in those high privileges, conducive at once to freedom and order, which have long been the glory of Englishmen. I hoped to confer on a united people a more extensive enjoyment of free and responsible government and to merge the petty jealousies of a small community and the odious animosities of origin in the higher feelings of a nobler...
第 131 頁 - I wish to rally as large a portion of the British people as possible, around the existing institutions of the country — the throne, lords, commons, and established church. I do not wish to make new institutions, but to preserve and strengthen the old. Herein lies the difference between me and my opponents. Some would confine the advantages of those institutions to as small a class as possible. I would throw them open to all, who had the ability to comprehend them, and the vigour to protect them.