History of Louisiana: The French Domination, Volume 1Redfield, 1854 |
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... thousand years , on the top of that hill of shells , the sepulcher of man , piled up by his hands , and overlooking that placid lake where all would be repose , if it were not for that solitary canoe , a moving speck , hardly visible in ...
... thousand years , on the top of that hill of shells , the sepulcher of man , piled up by his hands , and overlooking that placid lake where all would be repose , if it were not for that solitary canoe , a moving speck , hardly visible in ...
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... 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 the conquest of Peru ...
... 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 the conquest of Peru ...
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... thousand incidents of that romantic expedi- tion . What more interesting than the reception of Soto at the court of the Princess Cofachiqui , the Dido of the wilderness ! What battles , what victories over men , over the elements ...
... thousand incidents of that romantic expedi- tion . What more interesting than the reception of Soto at the court of the Princess Cofachiqui , the Dido of the wilderness ! What battles , what victories over men , over the elements ...
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... thousand canoes , mounted by twenty thousand men , with which he pursued the weary and despairing Spaniards for seventeen long days , assailing them with incessant fury ; the giving up of the chase only when the sea was nearly in sight ...
... thousand canoes , mounted by twenty thousand men , with which he pursued the weary and despairing Spaniards for seventeen long days , assailing them with incessant fury ; the giving up of the chase only when the sea was nearly in sight ...
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... thousand serpents , bursting from hell and drunk with its venom - the fall of timber , as if a host of sturdy axes had been at work in the forest - a thick overspreading smoke concealing the demon's work within its dusky folds ! With ...
... thousand serpents , bursting from hell and drunk with its venom - the fall of timber , as if a host of sturdy axes had been at work in the forest - a thick overspreading smoke concealing the demon's work within its dusky folds ! With ...
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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.