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... Cape Colony among men of the same race , who treat them as deliverers or as comrades ; we remember the complaints of the Uitlander . A thousand - and - one symptoms of the racial question crowd upon the mind . Was there ever the like of ...
... Cape Colony among men of the same race , who treat them as deliverers or as comrades ; we remember the complaints of the Uitlander . A thousand - and - one symptoms of the racial question crowd upon the mind . Was there ever the like of ...
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... Cape Colony and Natal to take similar action , but qualified by the dis- franchisement of any British subjects ... colonies , Sir Alfred saying plainly , The amnesty of rebels is not , in my opinion , a point which His Majesty's ...
... Cape Colony and Natal to take similar action , but qualified by the dis- franchisement of any British subjects ... colonies , Sir Alfred saying plainly , The amnesty of rebels is not , in my opinion , a point which His Majesty's ...
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... Cape Colony in May 1900. There is nothing like this known . It is an appeal for wisdom and for mercy , an appeal made by a colony to the mother country , and an appeal founded on the conduct in an enlightened time of the mother country ...
... Cape Colony in May 1900. There is nothing like this known . It is an appeal for wisdom and for mercy , an appeal made by a colony to the mother country , and an appeal founded on the conduct in an enlightened time of the mother country ...
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... colonies , and the immense variety of matters arising in them , foreign to our habits ... Cape , and New Holland ; from our colonies in the West Indies and in North ... colony with an efficient Court 1901 155 A COURT OF APPEAL FOR AUSTRALIA.
... colonies , and the immense variety of matters arising in them , foreign to our habits ... Cape , and New Holland ; from our colonies in the West Indies and in North ... colony with an efficient Court 1901 155 A COURT OF APPEAL FOR AUSTRALIA.
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... colonies I know best - the Australian ; at the present conference New Zealand ( no part of the Commonwealth ) , Cape Colony , Canada , Natal , and India are represented . To evolve a scheme agreeable to all these delegates may be a ...
... colonies I know best - the Australian ; at the present conference New Zealand ( no part of the Commonwealth ) , Cape Colony , Canada , Natal , and India are represented . To evolve a scheme agreeable to all these delegates may be a ...
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Page 9 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people — I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
Page 326 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Page 122 - The rich and the poor meet together: The Lord is the maker of them all.
Page 532 - If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Page 712 - ... is the sword of the Spirit, and to be preferred before these swords. That ought in all right to govern us, who use them for the people's safety by God's appointment. Without that sword, we are nothing, we can do nothing, we have no power. From that we are what we are this day.
Page 324 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 15 - It needs no change in the principles of government, no invention of a new constitutional theory, to supply the remedy which would, in my opinion, completely remove the existing political disorders. It needs but to follow out consistently the principles of The Report of The Earl of Durham.
Page 261 - I seldom mention my father in company; not because I have any reason to be ashamed of him, but because he has some reason to be ashamed of me.
Page 267 - Yet here no confusion — no tumult is known; Fair order and beauty establish their throne; For order, and beauty, and just regulation, Support all the works of this ample creation. For this, in compassion to mortals below, The gods, their peculiar favour to show, Sent Hermes to Bath in the shape of a beau: That grandson of Atlas came down from above To bless all the regions of pleasure and love; To lead the fair nymph thro...
Page 686 - ... with equal indifference out of the heroism of William of Orange or the bigotry of Philip. The noblest aims and lives were only counters on her board. She was the one soul in her realm whom the news of St. Bartholomew stirred to no thirst for vengeance ; and while England was thrilling with...