| 1895 - 588 Seiten
...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. ' I expected,' he said, ' to ' find a contest between a government and a people...bosom of a single state ; I found ' a struggle, not of principles, but of races.' Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 384 Seiten
...is not now a conflict of principles between the English and French, but a conflict of the two races. He says : — " I expected to find a contest between...bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1839 - 452 Seiten
...ere any success could be expected in any attempt to remedy the many evils of this unhappy Province. I expected to find a contest between a government...bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1839 - 164 Seiten
...ere any success could be expected in any attempt to remedy the many evils of this unhappy province. I expected to find a contest between a government...bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| 1839 - 630 Seiten
...in any attempt to remedy the many grievances of this unhappy Province. I expected" says Lord Durham, "to find a contest between a government and a people....bosom of a single State; I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| 1839 - 622 Seiten
...in any attempt to remedy the many grievances of this unhappy Province. 1 expected" says Lord Durham, "to find a contest between a government and a people....bosom of a single State; I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| 1844 - 500 Seiten
...hostility of the two races may be seen from the following passages in Lord Durham's Report : — " I expected to find a contest between a government...bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
| 1895 - 844 Seiten
...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. " I expected," he said, " to find a contest between a government and a people...bosom of a single state ; I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleant... | |
| Sir John Robert Seeley - 1883 - 338 Seiten
...of a war of liberty, as Lord Durham expressly remarks in the opening of his famous Report on Canada: 'I expected to find a contest between a government...bosom of a single state ; I found a struggle not of principles but of races.' It is however to be remarked on the other side that here too the alien element... | |
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