Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Volume 1Century Company, 1922 - Literary Criticism |
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... English and Protestant rulers ? On the answer to that question hung the future of Canada , and the answer , or ... speaking Canada , embodied this new policy . A measure of success followed . Then the un- expected result of the American ...
... English and Protestant rulers ? On the answer to that question hung the future of Canada , and the answer , or ... speaking Canada , embodied this new policy . A measure of success followed . Then the un- expected result of the American ...
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Oscar Douglas Skelton. of English - speaking settlers made it impossible to keep Canada wholly French , and the hatred for democracy and for all things French which developed during the wars with Napoleon made Englishmen unwilling to let ...
Oscar Douglas Skelton. of English - speaking settlers made it impossible to keep Canada wholly French , and the hatred for democracy and for all things French which developed during the wars with Napoleon made Englishmen unwilling to let ...
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... English speech but of the way of life and thought of his English - speaking countrymen . He accordingly determined to send Wilfrid , at the age of eleven , to the school in New Glasgow for two years . Arrangements were made to have him ...
... English speech but of the way of life and thought of his English - speaking countrymen . He accordingly determined to send Wilfrid , at the age of eleven , to the school in New Glasgow for two years . Arrangements were made to have him ...
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... English - speaking coun- trymen , and particularly to understand that many roads lead to heaven . It was an admirable preparation for the work which in later years was to be nearest to his heart , the endeavour to make the two races in ...
... English - speaking coun- trymen , and particularly to understand that many roads lead to heaven . It was an admirable preparation for the work which in later years was to be nearest to his heart , the endeavour to make the two races in ...
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... English - speaking Canada would be taken up in high school and the first years of college . The chief emphasis was laid on Latin ; the good fathers succeeded not merely in grinding into their pupils a thorough knowledge of moods and ...
... English - speaking Canada would be taken up in high school and the first years of college . The chief emphasis was laid on Latin ; the good fathers succeeded not merely in grinding into their pupils a thorough knowledge of moods and ...
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