The French in the Heart of AmericaC. Scribner's Sons, 1915 - 431 páginas |
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acres Alleghanies America Atlantic beautiful buffalo canal canoes carried Cartier Céloron century Champlain Châteaubriand Chicago colony coureurs de bois democracy doubtless earth England English Étienne Brûlé Europe explorers father feet fields forests Fort Duquesne Fort Frontenac France French Frontenac frontier gave Griffin gulf Gulf of Mexico Hennepin hundred Illinois Indians intimation iron Iroquois Jacques Cartier Jean Nicolet Jesuit Jesuit Relations Joliet journey king Lachine Rapids Lake Lake Michigan land later Lawrence Lincoln Louis XIV Louisiana Marquette mighty miles million Mississippi Valley mountains mouth nation Niagara Ohio Onontio Paris Parkman passed pioneers Pittsburgh plains plough portage path possession prairie priest Quebec railroad reached river Salle Salle's savages says seen ships shores spirit story streams thousand tion to-day Tonty town trails trees United village Washington western waters wild wilderness
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Página 262 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 141 - Not more than two complete townships to be given perpetually for the purposes of a University, to be laid off by the purchaser or purchasers, as near the center as may be, so that the same shall be of good land, to be applied to the intended object by the legislature of the State.
Página 21 - I thank thee, Blackgown, and thee, Frenchman,' addressing M. Jollyet, 'for taking so much pains to come and visit us; never has the earth been so beautiful, nor the sun so bright, as today; never has our river been so calm, nor so free from rocks, which your canoes have removed as they passed; never has our tobacco had so fine a flavor, nor our corn appeared so beautiful as we behold it today.
Página i - The afternoon waned; the sun sank behind the western forest, and twilight came on. Fireflies were twinkling over the darkened meadow. They caught them, tied them with threads into shining festoons, and hung them before the altar, where the Host remained exposed.
Página 166 - You have no authority to throw the rights and liberties and property of this people into hotch-pot with the wild men on the Missouri, nor with the mixed, though more respectable, race of Anglo-Hispano Americans, who bask on the sands in the mouth of the Mississippi.
Página 104 - United States, in the name of the French Republic, forever and in full sovereignty, the said territory, with all its rights and appurtenances, as fully and in the same manner as they have been acquired by the French Republic, in virtue of the above-mentioned treaty, concluded with His Catholic Majesty.
Página 311 - They shall not be sought for in the council of the people, and in the assembly they shall not mount on high...
Página 184 - who will one day have the happiness to possess this fertile and pleasant strait, will be very much obliged to those who have shown them the way.
Página 298 - As to the summons you send me to retire, I do not think myself obliged to obey it. Whatever may be your instructions, I am here by virtue of the orders of my general ; and I entreat you, sir, not to doubt one moment but that I am determined to conform myself to them with all the exactness and resolution which can be expected from the best officer.
Página 311 - The wisdom of the scribe cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. How shall he become wise that holdeth the plow; that glorieth in the shaft of the goad; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose discourse is of the stock of bulls? He will set his heart upon turning his furrows; and his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.