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Yet there have been few years of equal significance in the history of Canadian political development. There were intervals in which Bagot had time to reveal to Canada his genius for making friends; and the foundation of a provincial university in Toronto deeply interested one who had something of Canning's wit and literary inclinations. But politics usually claimed all his attention.
It was thrust on him by the Assembly of the people. Some of the new members of the Council had entered it with extreme notions of the supremacy of the Council over the governor; and the illness of Sir Charles Bagot, after this change, threw the current business of administration almost entirely into their hands, which tended much to confirm these notions."
There was also conteined in the said bill, that Bagot had heard the duke of Aumarle say, that he had rather than twentie thousand pounds that the duke of Hereford were dead, not for anie feare he had of him, but for the trouble and mischéefe that he was like to procure within the realme.
Father Corraine now faced the man, and with a soft exaltation of voice and manner, said: "John Bagot, in the name of Christ, I demand twenty years of your life of love and obedience of God. I broke my vow, I perjured my soul, I bought your wife with ten kegs of rum!" The tall hunter dropped again to his knees, and caught the priest's hand to kiss it.
Father Corraine now faced the man, and with a soft exaltation of voice and manner said: "John Bagot, in the name of Christ, I demand twenty years of your life of love and obedience of God. I broke my vow; I perjured my soul; I bought your wife with ten kegs of rum." The tall hunter dropped again to his knees, and caught the priest's hand to kiss it.
Bagot's instructions gave him a certain scope, for he was permitted to avail himself of the advice and services of the ablest men, without reference to the distinction of local party. In making use of this liberty, Bagot had to consider chiefly the need of finding a majority in the Lower House happily he could postpone their meeting till September.
I believe it to have been a generous and honest feeling; and in consequence I was rewarded by having all my time for ecclesiastical superior a man, whom had I had a choice, I should have preferred, out and out, to any other Bishop on the Bench, and for whose memory I have a special affection, Dr. Bagot a man of noble mind, and as kind-hearted and as considerate as he was noble.
I saw Aberdeen. He rather expects it. Read the report of the Commission appointed to form the articles of accusation against the Ministers. It is a party speech, with little points and prettinesses, affecting moderation, and full of rancour. It is a nation which has no idea of justice. September 28. Cabinet room. Dispatches of the 24th and 25th from Sir Ch. Bagot; but none from Mr. Cartwright.
It is a revelation of constitutional change to pass from the full, interesting, and many-sided despatches and letters of Sydenham, Bagot, and Elgin, to the perfunctory reports of Head and Monck.
Societies which vie with each other in piety and encouragement of virtue, they inspire young people with the love of prayer, the habits of regularity and of holy practices. The congregation of the college of La Flèche had then the good fortune of being directed by Father Bagot, one of those superior priests always so numerous in the Company of Jesus.
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