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Page 158 - Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Page 94 - Colonies by means of division, and to break them down as much as possible into petty isolated communities, incapable of combination, and possessing no sufficient strength for individual resistance to the Empire.
Page 317 - But, whatever criticisms might be justified by the ambitious title of "the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations...
Page iv - The support of all British Subjects, whether residing in the United Kingdom or the Colonies — for the Institute is intended for both — is earnestly desired in promoting the great objects of extending knowledge respecting the various portions of the Empire, and in promoting the cause of its permanent unity.
Page 102 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
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Page 97 - Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the imperial government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.
Page 149 - ... carriages that set out every other day. The journey from Charleston to Philadelphia may likewise be facilitated by boats running up Chesapeake Bay three hundred miles. But if the whole journey be performed on horseback, the most distant members, viz., the two from New Hampshire and from South Carolina, may probably render themselves at Philadelphia in fifteen or twenty days ; the majority may be there in much less time.