American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... Indians , who were gen- erally in sympathy with the French , for the annoy- ance of the English settlers . The Acadians were allied to the French by blood and by religion , but they claimed to have the rights of neutrals , and that ...
... Indians , who were gen- erally in sympathy with the French , for the annoy- ance of the English settlers . The Acadians were allied to the French by blood and by religion , but they claimed to have the rights of neutrals , and that ...
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... Indians living there , signifying place or region , and used as an affix to other words as indicating the place where various things , as cranberries , eels , seals , were found in abun- dance . The French turned this Indian term into ...
... Indians living there , signifying place or region , and used as an affix to other words as indicating the place where various things , as cranberries , eels , seals , were found in abun- dance . The French turned this Indian term into ...
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... Indian hunters asserted Cold would the winter be , for thick was the fur of the foxes . 144. Pluquet also gives this proverbial saying : - 66 Si le soleil rit le jour Sainte - Eulalie , Il y aura pommes et cidre à folie . " ( If the sun ...
... Indian hunters asserted Cold would the winter be , for thick was the fur of the foxes . 144. Pluquet also gives this proverbial saying : - 66 Si le soleil rit le jour Sainte - Eulalie , Il y aura pommes et cidre à folie . " ( If the sun ...
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... Indian Summer , All Saints Day being November 1st . The French also give this season the name of St. Martin's Summer , St. Martin's Day being November 11th . 170. Herodotus , in his account of Xerxes ' expedition against Greece , tells ...
... Indian Summer , All Saints Day being November 1st . The French also give this season the name of St. Martin's Summer , St. Martin's Day being November 11th . 170. Herodotus , in his account of Xerxes ' expedition against Greece , tells ...
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... of Aix - la - Chapelle in 1748 ; or , the reference may possibly be to Queen Anne's war , 1702-1713 , when the French aided the Indians in their warfare with the colonists . Now , though warier grown , without all guile or EVANGELINE . 31.
... of Aix - la - Chapelle in 1748 ; or , the reference may possibly be to Queen Anne's war , 1702-1713 , when the French aided the Indians in their warfare with the colonists . Now , though warier grown , without all guile or EVANGELINE . 31.
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