Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du CanadaRoyal Society of Canada., 1900 - Humanities |
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... canoe to Quebec just in time to avoid capture by the army of Montgomery , who with his officers took possession . In its vaults Benjamin Franklin , who accompanied the army , set up a printing press from which were sent forth ...
... canoe to Quebec just in time to avoid capture by the army of Montgomery , who with his officers took possession . In its vaults Benjamin Franklin , who accompanied the army , set up a printing press from which were sent forth ...
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... canoe " Past the Ohio shore , and past the mouth of the Wabash , Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi " " and found his way to the Gulf of Mexico and gave to France the great region of Louisiana which owes its ...
... canoe " Past the Ohio shore , and past the mouth of the Wabash , Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi " " and found his way to the Gulf of Mexico and gave to France the great region of Louisiana which owes its ...
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... canoes passed into Lake Ontario , and , following the southern shore , they reached Irondequoit Bay on August 26 , 1669. On this same day , Fremin and Garnier , who were hold- ing the Jesuit mission among the Senecas , left their post ...
... canoes passed into Lake Ontario , and , following the southern shore , they reached Irondequoit Bay on August 26 , 1669. On this same day , Fremin and Garnier , who were hold- ing the Jesuit mission among the Senecas , left their post ...
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... canoe in the middle of the Detroit river , saw on the one side " all the bustle of prosperity and commerce , " and on the other " all the symptoms of apathy , indolence , mistrust , hopelessness . " At the time such compari- sons were ...
... canoe in the middle of the Detroit river , saw on the one side " all the bustle of prosperity and commerce , " and on the other " all the symptoms of apathy , indolence , mistrust , hopelessness . " At the time such compari- sons were ...
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... canoes or other fragile craft could be drawn up without damage . Whether this was or was not the reason why the men of the stone age frequented more the lee than the weather side of such points as McDonald's , there can be no question ...
... canoes or other fragile craft could be drawn up without damage . Whether this was or was not the reason why the men of the stone age frequented more the lee than the weather side of such points as McDonald's , there can be no question ...
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Page 25 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 24 - A CES CAUSES, et autres à ce nous mouvant, de l'avis de notre Conseil et de notre certaine science...
Page xxxviii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page xlix - Act, shall, upon being printed and published or reprinted and rppublished in Canada, be entitled to copyright under this Act ; but nothing in this Act shall be held to prohibit the importation from the United Kingdom of copies of such works legally printed there.
Page 193 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers : it being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which...
Page 83 - Louis , par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre , à tous présens et à venir, salut.
Page 57 - Kingston, addressing himself to the Clerk (who standing up, pointed to him and then sat down), proposed to the House for their Speaker, the...
Page 83 - Nouvelle-France, donné et octroyé, donnons et octroyons par ces présentes signées de notre main...
Page 31 - But to return to the chateau : it is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline kind, called here the cat-a-mountain, and by some the American tiger, or panther, which it more resembles. This one, which had been killed in its attack on the fold or...
Page 23 - They knew that there was a book which taught them there was a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak.