The Relations of the Industry of Canada, with the Mother Country and the United StatesJ. Lovell, 1864 - 551 Seiten |
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Adam Smith admitted adopted advantage agricultural American amount Bank Bank of England Battalion benefit Britain British Brown Canadian farmer capital cent cheap classes Clergy Reserves colonies commerce common cotton debt duty Economists Empire employment England English existence exports fact favour Free Trade give GLOBE VERSUS gold Government Hamilton hear honour imports increase India industry interest ISAAC BUCHANAN labour land Lawrence legislation Legislature Lovell's General Geography LOVELL'S SERIES Lower Canada manufactures ment Militia millions Montreal mother country never Nova Scotia object opinion Parliament party patriotic Peel's Political Economy population practical present principle produce prosperity protection Province question railway raw materials Reciprocity Treaty Reform regard revenue school books secure SERIES OF SCHOOL Sheffield slavery supply tariff taxation thing tion Toronto United Upper Canada VERSUS THE CANADIAN views volunteer wealth wheat whole Zollverein
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Seite 169 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Seite 150 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir, Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers,' This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parishStocks for a vagrant.
Seite 73 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry...
Seite 150 - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Seite 63 - The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home trade, the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the country.
Seite 379 - Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience...
Seite 411 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Seite 140 - On the British side of the line, with the exception of a few favoured spots, where some approach to American prosperity is apparent, all seems waste and desolate.
Seite 5 - Of Europe, keep our noble England whole, And save the one true seed of freedom sown Betwixt a people and their ancient throne, That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings ; For, saving that, ye help to save mankind Till public wrong be crumbled into dust, And drill the raw world for the march of mind, Till crowds at length be sane and crowns be just.
Seite 150 - I should be glad to drink your Honour's health in A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence; But for my part, I never love to meddle With politics, sir.