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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock

CHAPTER XIV
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The expressions of regret as general as he was known, and not uttered by friends and acquaintance only, but by every gradation of class, not only by grown persons, but young children, are the test of his worth.

Such too is the only eulogium worthy of the good and brave, and the citizens of Quebec have, with solemn emotions, pronounced it on his memory.

But at this anxious moment other feelings are excited by his loss.

General Brock had acquired the confidence of the inhabitants within his government.

He had secured their attachment permanently by his own merits.


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