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.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot
For example, it was decided in 1830 that the Irish must be educated, and a system was set up which was deliberately designed to anglicize Ireland and extirpate Roman Catholicism.
"The Framework of Home Rule"
Erskine Childers
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 Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope