Humours of
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共 26 段- The English and the French temperaments, each the antipodes
- “Since the origin and language of the French-Canadians have
- In addition to present troubles there was a perpetual harkin
- At one of these outside meetings emblems, devices and mottoe
- The amount of thought bestowed upon the Canadas by these sta
- The St. Lawrence alone made the colony worth keeping; also,
- The chronicler has it that Brockville’s corps began with twe
- Some time before this, roused out of his retirement by the t
- “Our barracks there were in the blacksmith’s shop, without a
- It had been intended that the other half of the force, under
- A habitant from l’Isle Jésu brought word of the approach of
- “Up, then, brave Canadians, get ready your rifles and make s
- But the council was not held without its own storm. FitzGibb
- He himself was now the one flying, and the lion’s talons lef
- Sir Francis, in the account he has given us, seems to have b
- Strong manhood’s godlike form was there,
- “I, William Johnston, a native-born citizen of Upper Canada,
- That night was cold and dark, no moon, the very time for the
- “Let the journalists who can in their consciences vindicate
- Great, then, was the excitement when the news came that “_To
- Doctor Dunlop, “who commanded six hundred and fifty fine fel
- is the burden of their song. It is a song which loses half i
- “Talbot’s likeness to William IV. was specially commented on
- That the whole party was not killed was probably owing to th
- Speaking in his paper of the spirit of the “faction” towards
- “When Sir John’s order came for all the troops to be sent ea