Louisiana: ser. 1 The poetry, or the romance of the history of Louisiana. ser. 2 Louisiana; its history as a French colonyHarper & Brothers, 1851 A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf. |
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... Causes - Bien- ville's Apology - Effects of a Hurricane - Situation of the Colony in 1741 - Heroism of a French Girl in a Battle against the Indians- Bienville incurs the Displeasure of his Government - He demands the Establishment of a ...
... Causes - Bien- ville's Apology - Effects of a Hurricane - Situation of the Colony in 1741 - Heroism of a French Girl in a Battle against the Indians- Bienville incurs the Displeasure of his Government - He demands the Establishment of a ...
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... causes , would soon have not been endurable . I sought for a remedy : I looked into musty archives - I gather- ed materials — and subsequently became a historian , or rather a mere pretender to that name . Last year , as circumstance or ...
... causes , would soon have not been endurable . I sought for a remedy : I looked into musty archives - I gather- ed materials — and subsequently became a historian , or rather a mere pretender to that name . Last year , as circumstance or ...
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... months , for what reasonable cause , God only knows ; and did you not come back with the face of a whipped dog , telling me that 66 PREFACE . : ix you were satisfied with your experiment FIRST SERIES FIRST LECTURE Page.
... months , for what reasonable cause , God only knows ; and did you not come back with the face of a whipped dog , telling me that 66 PREFACE . : ix you were satisfied with your experiment FIRST SERIES FIRST LECTURE Page.
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... cause , the Indians hardly showed any of that hostility which they had exhibited toward the armed invasion of Spain . Joliet and Father Marquette floated down the river without much impediment , as far as the Arkansas . There , having ...
... cause , the Indians hardly showed any of that hostility which they had exhibited toward the armed invasion of Spain . Joliet and Father Marquette floated down the river without much impediment , as far as the Arkansas . There , having ...
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... cause . Out of the six that remained , five were to consecrate themselves to the establishment of a colony in Louisiana . Before visiting the Mississippi , Iberville had left his fleet anchored at the Chandeleur Islands . This name ...
... cause . Out of the six that remained , five were to consecrate themselves to the establishment of a colony in Louisiana . Before visiting the Mississippi , Iberville had left his fleet anchored at the Chandeleur Islands . This name ...
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arrived attack bank Bayou Manchac became Bienville Bienville's Biloxi blood brother Cadillac called Chaise Chickasaws chief Choctaws colonists colony command commissary companions Crozat D'Artaguette Dauphine Island death Denis dispatches Duke of Orleans enemies expedition eyes father favor feet fire force France French government Governor Périer Grondel ground hands head heart heaven hundred Iberville Indians John Law killed king king's Lake Pontchartrain land livres looked Louis Louisiana Maréchal de Villars Maurepas ment mind minister Mississippi Mississippi Company Muslin Natchez Natchitoches nation negroes never noble officers Orleans Pensacola possession Prince of Conti princess prisoners race returned river royal Salle Sauvolle sent settlement ship sight slaves soon soul sovereign Spaniards Spanish spirit stood Stung Serpent Superior Council temple thee thing thou thought tion tribe troops Tunicas vessels village warriors whole wife women
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Página 86 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 467 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 192 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and...
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Página 192 - My task is done, my song hath ceased, my theme Has died into an echo; it is fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ; Would it were worthier; but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
Página 211 - At the commencement of the year 1719 an edict was published, granting to the Mississippi Company the exclusive privilege of trading to the East Indies, China, and the South Seas, and to all the possessions of the French East India Company, established by Colbert. The Company, in consequence of this great increase of their business, assumed, as more appropriate, the title of Company of the Indies, and created fifty thousand new shares.
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Página 291 - Natchez nation was somewhere near the sun, whence they came to Mexico ; which country was their restingplace for some centuries. But they were probably driven from it in consequence of civil wars in which they were defeated. Some of the depositaries of their legendary lore even said, that their nation had been one of those that aided Cortez in overthrowing the empire of Montezuma. But soon perceiving that the Spaniards were disposed to exercise over them a tyranny worse than the one from which they...
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Página 196 - A subtile conjurer arose, who, waving aloft his magical wand, and using that name, then so obscure, to give more force to his incantations, prepared for France an intoxicating draught which made her reel as in drunkenness, and nearly prostrated her to the ground, despite of her ever-reviving energies. The star of John Law had risen on the horizon of France : and the Company of the Indies, the great Mississippi scheme, of which he was the chief projector, the destinies of France and of Louisiana,...