 | Literature - 1920 - 914 pages
...could not be beaten. The election was over. The flag had been waved as never before. Macdonald's cry, "A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die," had been the keynote of the campaign. Thousands of Canadians had imagined the country's national existence... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - Canada - 1886 - 758 pages
...much to inculcate pride in Canada. On his monument, in St. Paul's, London, are engraven the words, " A British subject I was born : a British subject I will die." This was his life motto, and the words have been an inspiration to multitudes to cultivate with the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1891 - 1120 pages
...send this evening to a veteran servant of the Empire, whose motto and watchword at the present time is "A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die." But in October, 1889, the leader of the PoliticalOpposition in Canada is reported to have said —... | |
 | James Pennington Macpherson - 1891 - 490 pages
...they ' may be, for the good of the Dominion of Canada.' They accepted his last public utterance : ' A British subject I was ' born ; a British subject I will die,' as the confession of their own faith. To the doing of his work -he brought great qualities, and all... | |
 | Christian sociology - 1891 - 626 pages
...among the most dutiful and loyal subjects of our beloved Queen. As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die. With my utmost, with my latest breath, will I oppose the " veiled treason " which attempts, by sordid... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1891 - 664 pages
...fly over Canada he would immediately abandon the country. Similarly his more recent announcement, " A British subject I was born ; a British subject I will die," was no mere formula. It may be that the expression reflected harshly upon his opponents. But he meant... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1891 - 722 pages
...among the most dutiful and loyal subjects of our beloved Queen. As for myself, my course is clear ; a British subject I was born, a British subject I will die. ' ' These last sentences have been the keynote of the political career of Sir John Macdonald, and there... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Europe - 1891 - 680 pages
...amongst the most dutiful and loyal subjects of our beloved Queen. As for myself, my course is clear, a British subject I was born, a British subject I will die." These last sentences have been the keynote of the political career of Sir John Macdmald, and there... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 608 pages
...which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. ... A British subject I was born ; a British subject I will die.' However devious his course, he always worked towards an unvarying ideal, and all the great measures... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - Canada - 1901 - 680 pages
...well as for its historical significance, with a paragraph marked by pathos as well as patriotism : •'A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. With my utmost strength, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ' veiled treason ' <vhich attempts... | |
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A British subject I was born; a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the veiled treason which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. 
