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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... human apprehension , and what usually goes by that name , whatever it may really be , would be discovered to act a more conspicuous part and to possess a more control- ling influence than preconception , and that volition which pro ...
... human apprehension , and what usually goes by that name , whatever it may really be , would be discovered to act a more conspicuous part and to possess a more control- ling influence than preconception , and that volition which pro ...
Page ix
... human body to cross my threshold , I swear ( and you know I always keep my word ) that I'll kick you away to the abolitionists . Now vanish from my sight . " What impression this order produced on this miserable slave , I do not know ...
... human body to cross my threshold , I swear ( and you know I always keep my word ) that I'll kick you away to the abolitionists . Now vanish from my sight . " What impression this order produced on this miserable slave , I do not know ...
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... human intellect . There may be sound judgment , acute perceptions , depth of thought , great powers of conception , of discrimination , of re- search , of assimilation , of combination of ideas , without imagination , or at least ...
... human intellect . There may be sound judgment , acute perceptions , depth of thought , great powers of conception , of discrimination , of re- search , of assimilation , of combination of ideas , without imagination , or at least ...
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... human actions and events , of all things and matters , the touchstone of poetry is one of the surest . I am willing to apply that criterion to Louisiana , considered both physically and historically ; I am will- ing that my native State ...
... human actions and events , of all things and matters , the touchstone of poetry is one of the surest . I am willing to apply that criterion to Louisiana , considered both physically and historically ; I am will- ing that my native State ...
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... human transformations ; in the poetry of the forests , of the valleys , of the mountains , of the lakes and rivers , as they came fresh and glorious from the hand of the Creator , in the poetry of barbaric manners , laws , and wars ...
... human transformations ; in the poetry of the forests , of the valleys , of the mountains , of the lakes and rivers , as they came fresh and glorious from the hand of the Creator , in the poetry of barbaric manners , laws , and wars ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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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Page 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.
Page 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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Page 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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Page 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,...