 | Art - 1904 - 918 pages
...is this really so incontestable a truth that it is a duty not only to hold but to proclaim it ? .... You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have the right to aspire." And with an appreciation of the position... | |
 | James Bruce (8th earl of Elgin.) - 1872 - 510 pages
...thing is, however, indispensable to the success of this or any other system of Colonial Government. You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have a right to aspire. Since I began this letter I have, I regret... | |
 | James Bruce Earl of Elgin - Great Britain - 1872 - 498 pages
...must renounce the existence habit of telling the Colonies that the Colonial is a provisional visional" existence. You must allow them to believe that, without...and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have a right to aspire. Since I began thjs letter I have, I regret... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...speech which kindled Elgin into a passion, and made him bid Grey renounce for himself and his leader the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. The same speech, too, extorted complaints from Robert Baldwin, the man whom Sydenham and Russell had... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 530 pages
...existence. You must allow them 1 Pamphlet by (?) Wakefield, A View of Sir C. Metcalffs Government, 1844. to believe that, without severing the bonds, which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 580 pages
...business, as the missioner of the Greater England idea. " You must renounce the habit,"6 he declared, "of telling the Colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them 1 Pamphlet by (?) Wakefield, A View of Sir C. Metcalfe' s Government, 1844. 2 Afterwards Lord Metcalfe.... | |
 | Bernard Holland - Great Britain - 1901 - 436 pages
...thing is, however, indispensable to the success of this, or any other, system of colonial government. You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have the right to aspire." Lord Elgin, after giving some striking... | |
 | Bernard Holland - Great Britain - 1901 - 432 pages
...thing is, however, indispensable to the success of this, or any other, system of colonial government. You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have the right to aspire." Lord Elgin, after giving some striking... | |
 | Alpheus Henry Snow - Colonies - 1902 - 640 pages
...federal organism, existing permanently and for beneficent objects, in a letter in which he declared: You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free... | |
 | Sir William Molesworth - Great Britain - 1903 - 564 pages
...modern student, but, on the whole, they would have subscribed cordially to the words of Lord Elgin, " You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development to which organised communities of free... | |
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You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies that the Colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social... 
