Historical Collections of Louisiana, Embracing Translations of Many Rare and Valuable Documents Relating to the Natural, Civil and Political History of that State, Opseg 1Benjamin Franklin French Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... ARIOSTO and TASSO , with comments throughout , occasional passages versified , and critical notices of the lives and genius of the authors . By LEIGH HUNT WIT AND HUMOR : a Sequel to " Imagination and Fancy . " By LEIGH HUNT . In Press ...
... ARIOSTO and TASSO , with comments throughout , occasional passages versified , and critical notices of the lives and genius of the authors . By LEIGH HUNT WIT AND HUMOR : a Sequel to " Imagination and Fancy . " By LEIGH HUNT . In Press ...
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HISTORICAL COLL OF LOUISIANA E, Opseg 1 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) 1799 French Pregled nije dostupan - 2016 |
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Stranica 19 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Stranica 35 - Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and of Navarre.
Stranica 48 - April, one thousand six hundred and eighty-two, in virtue of the commission of his Majesty, which I hold in my hand, and which may be seen by all whom it may concern, have taken, and do now take, in the name of his Majesty and of his...
Stranica 19 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Stranica 199 - The waters which fall from this vast height, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows from off the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen leagues off.
Stranica 36 - ... above mentioned, We give you full powers; on condition, however, that you shall finish this enterprise within five years, in default of which these presents shall be void and of none effect ; that you carry on no trade whatever with the savages called Outaouacs, and...
Stranica 6 - Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana.
Stranica 16 - Crozat, the laws, edicts and ordinances of the realm and the custom of Paris, are expressly extended to Louisiana. To this custom, which we all know was a body of written law, may be traced the origin of many of the peculiar institutions which still distinguish our jurisprudence from that of all the other states in the Union.