 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1883 - 640 sivua
...it mildly, well supplied with religious edifices. Mark Twain recently said, speaking in Montreal, " that he never was in a city before where one could...throw a brick-bat without breaking a church window." A recent writer on the subject says — " The action and reaction constantly going on in a community... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science, Samuel Edward Dawson - 1882 - 168 sivua
...Its offices are in St. Gabriel street. THE CHURCHES OF MONTREAL. From what has been said at page 17 concerning the early settlement of Montreal, a stranger...naturally excites a corresponding amount of zeal which has crystalised into stone and mortar. There is, however, a vast amount of tolerant feeling in religious... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1883 - 604 sivua
...it mildly, well supplied with religious edifices. Mark Twain recently said, speaking in Montreal, " that he never was in a city before where one could...throw a brick-bat without breaking a church window." A recent writer on the subject says—" The action and reaction constantly going on in a community... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1887 - 894 sivua
...ecclesiastical buildings that surrounds the Windsor Hotel, when he said, in a speech at a public dinner, that he never was in a city before where one could...throw a brickbat without breaking a church window. " Our Laureate," Louis Frechette, gracefully speaks of the steeples of the city as " un bandeau de... | |
 | Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1890 - 348 sivua
...good American is used to cities full of churches, said of it that he was never previously in a city where one could not throw a brickbat without breaking a church window. To one who comes to Montreal knowing the statisties, which show that a large majority of the inhabitants... | |
 | Andrew Iredale - 1901 - 180 sivua
...once humorously hit off this characteristic of Montreal by saying he had never before been in a city where one could not throw a brickbat without breaking a church window. The public buildings are numerous and stately. The municipalities in these new countries spend with a prodigal... | |
 | Jean Monet - 1996 - 196 sivua
...Catholic City of Steeples, a city which Mark Twain had once labelled as the only city he had been in "where one could not throw a brickbat without breaking a church window." In the limousine, the mood was relaxed. "What this case tells us" said the priest, "is that we should... | |
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The action and reaction constantly going on in a community containing an unusual number of earnest men of all conceivable shades of ecclesiastical opinion naturally excites a corresponding amount of zeal which has crystalised into stone and mortar. 