The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slickville ; to which is Added The Bubble of CanadaBaudry's European Library, 1839 - 421 ページ |
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a'most actilly afore ag'in agin agoin Ahab ain't aint airth arter beautiful better blue-noses British clock Clockmaker colonies critter dear devil dollars eend England English everlastin eyes fact father feel feller folks fool French galls gentleman gineral gist give goes governor guess half Halifax hand hante head hear heart heerd heerd tell honour horse hoss house of assembly jist kinder land larf larn legislative council legislature look lookin Lord Lord Aylmer Lower Canada Majesty's Majesty's government mind minister mornin mother nateral natur never seed nigger night nothin Nova Scotia officers parliament patriots pity plaguy poor pretty province rael round Sam Slick Sandhole sarved says sight Slick Slickville somethin squire t'other talk tarnation there's thing thought thro trade warn't whole Yankee
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165 ページ - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
354 ページ - Britain; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
408 ページ - The parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
303 ページ - Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion.
408 ページ - Such, Sir, is my idea of the constitution of the British empire, as distinguished from the constitution of Britain ; and on these grounds I think subordination and liberty may be sufficiently reconciled through the whole ; whether to serve a refining speculatist, or a factious demagogue, I know not ; but enough surely for the ease and happiness of man.
244 ページ - Horeb," a voice was heard, saying, " draw nigh hither, and put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
354 ページ - ... inapplicable to the state and circumstances of the said province, the inhabitants whereof amounted at the conquest to above sixtyfive thousand persons professing the religion of the Church of Rome, and enjoying an established form of constitution and system of laws, by which their persons and property had been protected, governed and ordered, for a long series of years, from the first establishment of the said province of Canada...
4 ページ - I call for the clock, that having once indulged in the use of a superfluity, how difficult it is to give it up. We can do without any article of luxury we have never had, but when once obtained, it is not in 'human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. Of fifteen thousand sold by myself and partners in this Province, twelve thousand were left in this manner, and only ten clocks were ever returned -when we called for them they invariably bought them. We trust to 'soft sawder...
327 ページ - Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce, the net produce of such duties to be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, province, or plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such manner as other duties collected by the authority of the respective General Courts or General Assemblies of such colonies, provinces, or plantations are...
397 ページ - All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will' be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one.