The Evolution of French Canada

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Macmillan, 1924 - 467 Seiten
 

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Seite 99 - 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...
Seite 260 - But the Catholic priesthood of this Province have, to a very remarkable degree, conciliated the good-will of persons of all creeds ; and I know of no parochial clergy in the world whose practice of all the Christian virtues, and zealous discharge of their clerical duties, is more universally admitted, and has been productive of more beneficial consequences.
Seite 198 - Je ne puis; — malgré moi l'infini me tourmente. Je n'y saurais songer sans crainte et sans espoir; Et, quoi qu'on en ait dit, ma raison s'épouvante De ne pas le comprendre, et pourtant de le voir.
Seite 411 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Seite 110 - Province.—. Let them feel on the other hand that their religion, their habits, their prepossessions, their prejudices if you will, are more considered and respected here than in other portions of this vast continent...
Seite 379 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Seite 357 - There can hardly be conceived a nationality more destitute of all that can invigorate and elevate a people, than that which is exhibited by the descendants of the French in Lower Canada, owing to their retaining their peculiar language and manners. They are a people with no history, and no literature.
Seite 133 - I shall remind you that already many problems rise before you: problems of race division, problems of creed differences, problems of economic conflict, problems of national duty and national aspiration. Let me tell you that for the solution of these problems you have a safe guide, an unfailing light, if you remember that faith is better than doubt and love is better than hate.
Seite 99 - ... constitutions established in all our North American Provinces, and the striking tendency of all to terminate in pretty nearly the same result, without entertaining a belief that some defect in the form of government, and some erroneous principle of administration, have been common to all ; the hostility of the races being palpably insufficient to account for all the evils which have affected Lower Canada, inasmuch as nearly the same results have been exhibited among the homogeneous population...
Seite 58 - Instead of men of genius and untainted morals, the very reverse were appointed to the most important offices ; and it was impossible to communicate, through them, those impressions of the dignity of government, by which alone mankind can be held together in society.

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