History of Louisiana: The French Domination, Volume 1Redfield, 1854 |
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... looked not unlike Titanic race - horses pressing for the goal . Their very masts with their long flags streaming , like Gorgon's disheveled locks , seemed , as they bent under the wind , to be quivering with the anxiety of the chase ...
... looked not unlike Titanic race - horses pressing for the goal . Their very masts with their long flags streaming , like Gorgon's disheveled locks , seemed , as they bent under the wind , to be quivering with the anxiety of the chase ...
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... looked like metamorphosed ghosts , clothed in plumage , screamed in the air , as if they were scared at each other . There was something agonizing in their shrieks , that was in harmony with the desola- tion of the place . On every side ...
... looked like metamorphosed ghosts , clothed in plumage , screamed in the air , as if they were scared at each other . There was something agonizing in their shrieks , that was in harmony with the desola- tion of the place . On every side ...
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... looked like magic , and made him the most fascinating of ministers . For such a king as Louis the XVth , who felt with great sensitiveness any thing that disturbed the volup- tuous tranquillity which was the sole object of his life ...
... looked like magic , and made him the most fascinating of ministers . For such a king as Louis the XVth , who felt with great sensitiveness any thing that disturbed the volup- tuous tranquillity which was the sole object of his life ...
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... waters only through a small aperture , and because it looked rather like a part of the sea , separated from its main body by numerous islands , called it Lake Borgne , meaning Ꭰ 50 ST . LOUIS . something incomplete or defective ,
... waters only through a small aperture , and because it looked rather like a part of the sea , separated from its main body by numerous islands , called it Lake Borgne , meaning Ꭰ 50 ST . LOUIS . something incomplete or defective ,
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... looked dead . Beasts of prey , hyenas , jackals , and wolves , attracted by the nox- ious effluvia which issued from the camp , filled the ears with their dismal howlings . From the deep blue sky , ST . LOUIS . 55 there came no ...
... looked dead . Beasts of prey , hyenas , jackals , and wolves , attracted by the nox- ious effluvia which issued from the camp , filled the ears with their dismal howlings . From the deep blue sky , ST . LOUIS . 55 there came no ...
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arrived attack bank became Bienville Bienville's Biloxi blood brother Cadillac called Chaise Chickasaw war Chickasaws chief Choctaws Chopart colonists colony command Crozat D'Artaguette d'Aubant Dauphine Island death Denis dispatches Duke of Orleans enemies expedition eyes father favor feet fire force France French government governor of Louisiana Governor Périer Grondel ground hand head heart hundred Iberville Indians John Law killed king king's commissary Lake Pontchartrain land livres looked Louis Louisiana Maréchal de Villars ment mind Mississippi Mississippi Company Mobile moon Natchez Natchitoches nation negroes never noble officers Orleans peace Pensacola possession Prince of Conti princess prisoners received river royal Salle sent settlement ship slaves soldiers 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 Yazoos
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Page 463 - 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?
Page 395 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 229 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 81 - 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.
Page 186 - 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.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 166 - Cadillac, there had returned to Mobile a young man named St. Denis, who was a relation of Bienville, and whom, two years before, Cadillac had sent to Natchitoches, to oppose the Spaniards in an establishment which it was reported they intended to make in that part of the country. His orders were, to proceed afterward to New Mexico, to ascertain if it would not be possible to establish in that direction, internal relations of commerce between Louisiana and the Mexican provinces, where it was hoped...
Page 287 - Saunsari, about a mile from the camp, on the other side of the Railway line, crossed at the first crossing after the Deolali station near Dr. Bapuji P. Narielwala's Convalescent Home.
Page 192 - France and of Louisiana, the expected results of such commerce as the world had never known before, the reports of hidden treasures concealed in inexhaustible mines of silver and gold, were to be indissolubly united in the annals of history and of folly. On the 13th of August, 1717, the situation of affairs in the colony of Louisiana having been brought before the Council of State', at Versailles, it was decided by that body, presided over by the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France during the minority...
Page 77 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.