Picture of Quebec: With Historical RecollectionsNeilson & Gowan, printers, 1834 - 477 pages |
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... Jacques Cartier . - Madoc , Prince of Wales - Claim of the Norwegians - Period of Modern Discovery - Co- lumbus - John and Sebastian Cabot - Voyage of Cor- tereal - Discovery by the French - Giovanni Verazzano --Canon de bronze ...
... Jacques Cartier . - Madoc , Prince of Wales - Claim of the Norwegians - Period of Modern Discovery - Co- lumbus - John and Sebastian Cabot - Voyage of Cor- tereal - Discovery by the French - Giovanni Verazzano --Canon de bronze ...
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... JACQUES CARTIER . BEFORE we proceed to the descriptive portion of our volume , it has been thought necessary to give a sketch of the progress of maritime discovery in this part of the continent , with historical notices and ...
... JACQUES CARTIER . BEFORE we proceed to the descriptive portion of our volume , it has been thought necessary to give a sketch of the progress of maritime discovery in this part of the continent , with historical notices and ...
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... Jacques Cartier to give the name of " Isle of Bacchus , " to what is now termed the Isle of Orleans . They passed the winter there , and found that on the shortest day the sun rose at eight o'clock , which fixes the place of their visit ...
... Jacques Cartier to give the name of " Isle of Bacchus , " to what is now termed the Isle of Orleans . They passed the winter there , and found that on the shortest day the sun rose at eight o'clock , which fixes the place of their visit ...
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... Jacques Cartier , in 1535 , we are ne- vertheless disposed to claim for the English the principal merit of the discovery . We contend , that independently of England having first entertained the propositions of Columbus in 1488 , the ...
... Jacques Cartier , in 1535 , we are ne- vertheless disposed to claim for the English the principal merit of the discovery . We contend , that independently of England having first entertained the propositions of Columbus in 1488 , the ...
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... Jacques Cartier . " He gives no authority for this assertion ; and , doubtless , only re- peated the tradition of La Hontan , who after all seems to mention it more in jest than as really be- lieving it . Charlevoix , with better taste ...
... Jacques Cartier . " He gives no authority for this assertion ; and , doubtless , only re- peated the tradition of La Hontan , who after all seems to mention it more in jest than as really be- lieving it . Charlevoix , with better taste ...
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Page 346 - And before ten, the two armies, equal in numbers, each being composed of less than five thousand "men, were ranged in presence of one another for battle. The English, not easily accessible from intervening shallow ravines and...
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Page 71 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 296 - ... provided, and am resolved, by the help of God, in whom I trust, by force of arms to revenge all wrongs and injuries offered, and bring you under subjection to the Crown of England, and, when too late, make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. "Your answer positive in an hour returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue.
Page 320 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
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Page 342 - Thereupon the general rejoined: "Go, one of you, my lads, to Colonel Burton — ; tell him to march Webb's regiment with all speed down to Charles River, to cut off the retreat of the fugitives from the bridge.
Page 396 - The enemy," he soon after wrote to Pitt, "was greatly superior in number, it is true ; but when I considered that our little army was in the habit of beating that enemy, and had a very fine train of field artillery ; that shutting ourselves at once within the walls was putting all upon the single chance of holding out for a considerable time a wretched fortification, I resolved to give them battle ; and, half an hour after six in the morning, we marched with all the force I could muster, namely,...
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