Picture of Quebec: With Historical RecollectionsNeilson & Gowan, printers, 1834 - 477 sider |
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... remains undiminished , and its glorious recollections unfaded . By the subse- quent capitulation , a most important Province was wrested from the French , and reduced under the British sceptre - the population of which , fostered by the ...
... remains undiminished , and its glorious recollections unfaded . By the subse- quent capitulation , a most important Province was wrested from the French , and reduced under the British sceptre - the population of which , fostered by the ...
Side 11
... remains , that Indians , or dark complexioned people of some nation or other , actually reached the coast of Germany or Gaul , some time before the year of Rome , 694 , the com- mencement of Cæsar's conquests . In all probabi- lity ...
... remains , that Indians , or dark complexioned people of some nation or other , actually reached the coast of Germany or Gaul , some time before the year of Rome , 694 , the com- mencement of Cæsar's conquests . In all probabi- lity ...
Side 63
... remains of the ancient fort in question . On his return to the Fort of Charlesbourg Royal , the suspicions of Cartier as to the unfriendly dispo- sition of the Indians were confirmed . He was in- formed that the natives now kept aloof ...
... remains of the ancient fort in question . On his return to the Fort of Charlesbourg Royal , the suspicions of Cartier as to the unfriendly dispo- sition of the Indians were confirmed . He was in- formed that the natives now kept aloof ...
Side 103
... remains were followed to the grave with real sorrow by the Clergy , Officers , and the civil and military inhabitants , Father Le Jeune pronounc- ing an appropriate funeral oration . At the death of CHAMPLAIN the French possessions in ...
... remains were followed to the grave with real sorrow by the Clergy , Officers , and the civil and military inhabitants , Father Le Jeune pronounc- ing an appropriate funeral oration . At the death of CHAMPLAIN the French possessions in ...
Side 171
... building of great length , and com- pletely provided with every necessary appointment . Close to it are the remains of an old military work , on an eminence nearer the CAPE , In the print of WITH HISTORICAL RECOLLECTIONS 171.
... building of great length , and com- pletely provided with every necessary appointment . Close to it are the remains of an old military work , on an eminence nearer the CAPE , In the print of WITH HISTORICAL RECOLLECTIONS 171.
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Admiral afterwards America ancient appears army arrived attack Barracks battery beautiful Bishop boats British building called Canada Cape Diamond Captain Castle of St Champlain Charles Charlevoix Church coast Colonel colony command commenced Croix discovery Donnacona enemy England English erected establishment expedition Father feet fire fortifications France French gallant garden garrison Gaspé Gourgues Governor Gulf of St Hochelaga honor Hospital Hospitalières HOTEL DIEU hundred Huron Indians inhabitants inscription Iroquois Jacques Cartier Jesuits John Cabot Kertk King LA PELTRIE land Lawrence Lévi Lewis Lieutenant Lord Lower Town ment military MONTCALM Montreal natives officers Palace plain Plains of Abraham Pointe Lévi possession present Province Quebec ramparts received Récollet Regiment residence River St Roberval Royal sailed savages Seminary settlement ships shore side siege Spaniards Stadacona stone Street Suffolk Tadoussac tion troops Upper Town URSULINES Verazzano vessels voyage winter WOLFE wounded
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Side 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...
Side 359 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 88 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 320 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
Side 116 - But I had not so much of man in me, But all my mother came into my eyes, And gave me up to tears.
Side 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.
Side 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,...
Side 5 - Venient annis Ssecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nee sit terris Ultima Thule...