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But he went on to say, even were such attempts successful, what would be the inevitable result: "You may perhaps Americanize, but, depend upon it, by methods of this description you will never Anglicize the French inhabitants of the province.
Let his grand object be, by every legitimate means at his command, to Anglicize India; to encourage the adoption of English habits of thought, the practical appreciation of English principles of government; in short, thoroughly to identify the people of India with the people of England, in all their partialities, and prejudices, and interests.
André sought out Jimmy Quick, who had toured France and could make himself understood. Jimmy was commissioned to anglicize a proper proposal and André spent hours in repeating the verbiage as taught. At the proper moment, he met the object of his adoration back of the scenes and fired his volley of transposed endearments. It had a tremendous effect all right, but it was in reverse gear.
Fate and circumstances must Anglicize it in spite of the huge French consulate, in spite of legions of greedy Greeks; in spite even of sand, musquitos, bugs, and dirt, of winds from India, and of thieves from Cyprus. The P. and O. Company will yet be the lords of Egypt; either that or some other company or set of men banded together to make Egypt a highway.
You may perhaps Americanize, but, depend upon it, by methods of this description you will never Anglicize the French inhabitants of the province.
The erection and endowment of rectories "according to the establishment of the Church of England" words of the act to be construed in connection with the previous clauses was obviously a part of the original scheme of 1791 to anglicize Upper Canada and make it as far as possible a reflex of Anglican England.
New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to United States statehood; the close of the old territorial system within the mainland of the United States. The United States presidential election resulted in almost a political revolution. Woodrow Wilson was elected to power by the "Progressive Democrats." In Canada the French of Ontario province made vigorous protest against efforts to Anglicize them.
The governor should take particular care that 'they do no damage, before such their removal, to their respective homes and plantations. Determined efforts should be made, not only to Anglicize, but to Protestantize the people. Marriages between the Acadians and the English were to be encouraged. Trade with the French settlements was prohibited.
The new "English interest" thus created was often hostile to the soundest rules of policy and always opposed to the dictates of right and justice; but the double desire to conquer and to convert to anglicize and Protestantize blinded many to the lawless means by which they were worked out.
He had a handsome estate, and lived sensibly. He sent Hawksley to England to school and spent a good deal of time there with him, teaching him how to play the fiddle, for which it seems Hawksley had a natural bent. He had to Anglicize his name; for Two-Hawks would have made people laugh. To be a gentleman, Kitty, one does not have to be a prince or a grand duke.
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