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Title: The Campaign of 1760 in Canada
A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone

Author: Chevalier Johnstone

Release Date: September 19, 2005 [EBook #16724]

Language: English

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THE
CAMPAIGN of 1760 in CANADA

A NARRATIVE ATTRIBUTED TO
CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE.

Published under the Auspices of the
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec

QUEBEC:
PRINTED AT THE "MORNING CHRONICLE" OFFICE

1887.

[PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF QUEBEC.]

ATTRIBUTED TO CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE.

Hope that heavenly, healing balm, that gift from Providence, blended
with persecutions to blunt the sharpness of their sting and hinder the
unfortunate from being overwhelmed, and sinking under the load of
their afflictions, never dies out--never abandons the distressed. "We
don't believe in dangers," says Machiavel, "until they are over our
heads; but we entertain hopes of escaping them when at a great
distance." Hope does not abandon the pale, dying man: in his agony he
still fells life, and in his thoughts he does not detach himself from
it. Death strikes, before his heart has realized that he could cease
to live. Search in the prisons: hope dwells there with the wretch who
next day is to undergo his sentence of death. Every time the bolts
rattle, he believes his deliverance entering with the jailer. Whole
years of slavery have not been able to wear out this consoling
sentiment. These contradictions,--these differences of seeing,--these
returns,--this stormy flow and ebb, are so many effects of hope, which
plays upon us and never ceases. It is inherent in human nature to hope
in adversity f