Ontario History, Volúmenes 16-19

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Ontario Historical Society, 1919
Vols. 29- include the society's Report, 1931/32- except 1938/39-1939/40 which were issued separately.

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Página 34 - It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquired.
Página 152 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Página 16 - Regent's pleasure thereon, shall be entered in the general order book, and read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service.
Página 27 - She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Página 63 - A letter to Her Majesty the British Queen, with letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg, and Sir George Arthur: to which is added an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial at Toronto in Upper Canada.
Página 60 - As for our gathering together in a church way, and the choice of officers and members to be joined together in that way, we do refer ourselves until such time as it shall please God to settle us in our plantation. In witness whereof we subscribe our hands the first day of June 1639.
Página 12 - Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly...
Página 11 - Father, you have got the arms and ammunition which our great father sent for his red children. If you have an idea of going away, give them to us, and you may go and welcome, for us. Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit. We are determined to defend our lands, and if it be his will we wish to leave our bones upon them.
Página 123 - Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person; There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Página 105 - ... hearty exertions of His Indian Allies, in the support of His Cause, and as a Proof of His most friendly Disposition towards them, has been graciously pleased to consent that the Losses already certified by His Superintendant General shall be made good, that a favorable Attention shall also be shewn to the Claims of others who have pursued the same System of conduct and that Sr.

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