 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1839 - 164 lehte
...poverty which the pressure of population occasions in the old world became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Nor were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in those which common consent... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1839 - 452 lehte
...poverty which the pressure of population occasions in the Old World, became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Nor were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in those which common consent... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 lehte
...poverty which the pressure of population occasions in the Old World became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...from any strong sense of their beneficial effects, bnt with the unreasoning tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Nor were they wanting... | |
 | James Bryce Brown - 1851 - 514 lehte
...Conquest by England, in 1759, we have here still very much the same sort of people clinging to their ancient prejudices, ancient customs, and ancient laws...from any strong sense of their beneficial effects, as has been well observed by a distinguished statesman who possessed privileged opportunities of forming... | |
 | 1901 - 1158 lehte
...us to-day in British South Africa. Do we not recognise this picture ? 14 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY July They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Nor were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in those which common consent... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1902 - 328 lehte
...poverty which the pressure of population occasions in the Old World, became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Now were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in those which common consent... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1906 - 546 lehte
...spiritual alike, the habitants on the banks of the St. Lawrence in a condition of feudal dependence. ' They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people.' Although the rebellion had been crushed, it left behind bitter memories and animosities, amongst both... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1912 - 358 lehte
...page 31. which the pressure of population occasions in the Old World, became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs...with the unreasoning tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressivc people. Nor were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in... | |
 | 1914 - 136 lehte
...poverty which the pressure of population occasions in the Old World became not to be wholly unknown. They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs,...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. Nor were they wanting in the virtues of a simple and industrious life, or in those which common consent... | |
 | Alfred Duclos De Celles, William Stewart Wallace - 1916 - 178 lehte
...Durham's Report seriously faulty : it is not fair to French Canadians. ' They cling,' wrote Durham, * to ancient prejudices, ancient customs, and ancient...tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people.' To their racial and nationalist ambitions he was far from favourable. ' The error,' he contended, '... | |
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They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs, and ancient laws, not from any strong sense of their beneficial effects, but with the unreasoning tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people. 
