A Short Sketch of the Province of Upper Canada: For the Information of the Labouring Poor Throughout England, to which is Prefixed Thoughts on Colonization ... |
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Page 11 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 11 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 18 - Uies before mentioned : And whereas by Reafon of the Laws now in Force, for the Relief of the Poor, many Difficulties may arife in carrying into Execution the good Intents of the faid Charter, and that the granting other and further Powers to the faid Corporation is requifite, effectually...
Page 12 - GUILTY upon both; and, while we rejoice at this, it is the duty of those who have it in their power to endeavour to prevent other innocent persons from being persecuted in the like manner.
Page 58 - Union." 1 have already exceeded the limits which I had prescribed to myself when I began to...
Page 11 - The sacred history goes on to state that " the flocks and herds of Abraham and Lot were so great that the land was not able to bear them.
Page 25 - In the same year, wheat, of which is composed the staff of life, was higher than it had ever been before, or has ever been since; it rose that year to the enormous average price of 126s.