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... French king , just at this time and precisely at this spot , had found it meet to proclaim the sovereignty of France over a yast area where France possesses to - day not a rood of territory . The discovery of America , and discovery in ...
... French king , just at this time and precisely at this spot , had found it meet to proclaim the sovereignty of France over a yast area where France possesses to - day not a rood of territory . The discovery of America , and discovery in ...
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... French from the north a hundred and fifty years later . Gradually geographers learned to look wistfuily to the north , where the English under Cabot had been the first to disclose what proved to be a great gulf . The Por- tuguese ...
... French from the north a hundred and fifty years later . Gradually geographers learned to look wistfuily to the north , where the English under Cabot had been the first to disclose what proved to be a great gulf . The Por- tuguese ...
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... French posts . When on his return this enterprising leader proposed to the authorities at Quebec an expedition by sea to wrest this northern vantage ground from their En- glish rivals , he got nothing but jeers and neglect . This ...
... French posts . When on his return this enterprising leader proposed to the authorities at Quebec an expedition by sea to wrest this northern vantage ground from their En- glish rivals , he got nothing but jeers and neglect . This ...
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... French lilies from its upper reaches to the sea . In this frame of mind Talon organized the expedition whose crowning act may interest us to - day . To give dig nity to the movement he selected a gentleman to lead it , Daumont de Saint ...
... French lilies from its upper reaches to the sea . In this frame of mind Talon organized the expedition whose crowning act may interest us to - day . To give dig nity to the movement he selected a gentleman to lead it , Daumont de Saint ...
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... French king . There was one among the four or five black robes , who made part of the attending whites , who was conspic- uous for his hoary years , -a man now much beyond his threescore and ten , but still undaunted at the hardships of ...
... French king . There was one among the four or five black robes , who made part of the attending whites , who was conspic- uous for his hoary years , -a man now much beyond his threescore and ten , but still undaunted at the hardships of ...
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Página 144 - Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give...
Página 51 - I question whether democratic institutions could long be maintained ; and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.
Página 99 - At length we are in peace, God be praised, and long, very long, may it continue! All wars are follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their differences by arbitration ? Were they to do it, even by the cast of a die, it would be better than by fighting and destroying each other.
Página 101 - Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Página 145 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost: Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on...
Página 78 - 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 scallop-shell; Farewell!
Página 144 - Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast : keep, then, the path...
Página 145 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...