 | 1895 - 588 oldal
...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...found ' a struggle, not of principles, but of races.' Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1839 - 164 oldal
...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 and a people...first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that BOW separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English. " It... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 378 oldal
...principles between the English and French, but a conflict of the two races. He says :— " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...institutions until we could first succeed in terminating a deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of... | |
 | 1895 - 844 oldal
...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...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleant of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1883 - 340 oldal
...liberty, as Lord Durham expressly remarks in the opening of his famous Report on Canada : ' I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...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 dwindles and is likely... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - 1883 - 656 oldal
...ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — '• I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...bosom of a single state. I found a struggle not of principle.), but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws... | |
 | Sir John George Bourinot - 1888 - 258 oldal
...by much acrimony, but eventually all the revenues of the province were conceded to1 1 " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Lord Durham's R , p. 7. 2 Lord Durham's R., pp. 56-58. * Mr. Young to Lord Durham, R., p. 75, and App.... | |
 | 1895 - 848 oldal
...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...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although... | |
 | John George Bourinot - 1896 - 514 oldal
...the English-speaking minority controlled the government. " I found," wrote Lord Durham, in 1839, " two nations warring in the bosom of a single state;...found a struggle not of principles but of races." It is true that some Englishmen were found fighting for popular liberties on the side of the French... | |
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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... 
