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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... close by , and which flew to its fingers , where it stuck . A few minutes after , it was dipped in ink , and running over paper at the rate of fifty miles an hour , and raising as much smoke as any loco- motive in the country . The ...
... close by , and which flew to its fingers , where it stuck . A few minutes after , it was dipped in ink , and running over paper at the rate of fifty miles an hour , and raising as much smoke as any loco- motive in the country . The ...
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... close to the shore ; one thousand men of infantry , and three hundred and fifty men of cavalry , fully equipped , were landing in proud array under the command of Hernando De Soto , one of the most illus- trious companions of Pizarro in ...
... close to the shore ; one thousand men of infantry , and three hundred and fifty men of cavalry , fully equipped , were landing in proud array under the command of Hernando De Soto , one of the most illus- trious companions of Pizarro in ...
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... close his adventurous career . Three years of intense bodily fatigue and mental excitement had undermined the hero's constitution . Alas ! well might the spirit droop within him ! He had landed on the shore of the North American ...
... close his adventurous career . Three years of intense bodily fatigue and mental excitement had undermined the hero's constitution . Alas ! well might the spirit droop within him ! He had landed on the shore of the North American ...
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... close around him . Here is not the place to relate his misunderstandings , degenerating into bitter quarrels with the proud Beaujeu , who had the subordinate command of the fleet , and who thought himself dishonored - he , the old ...
... close around him . Here is not the place to relate his misunderstandings , degenerating into bitter quarrels with the proud Beaujeu , who had the subordinate command of the fleet , and who thought himself dishonored - he , the old ...
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... close my observations with the remark , that he who will write the life of that extraordinary man , how- ever austere his turn of mind may be , will hardly be able to prevent the golden hues of poetry from over- spreading the pages ...
... close my observations with the remark , that he who will write the life of that extraordinary man , how- ever austere his turn of mind may be , will hardly be able to prevent the golden hues of poetry from over- spreading the pages ...
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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...
Página 1 - Treatise on the English Language In its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Development, and a full Grammar. Designed for Use in Colleges and Schools.
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...
Página 546 - History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James II., 1688. By DAVID HUME.
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,...