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See also La Poterie, Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale, II. 51-56. When Ragueneau and his party left Isle St. Joseph for Quebec, the greater number of the Hurons chose to remain. They took possession of the stone fort which the French had abandoned, and where, with reasonable vigilance, they could maintain themselves against attack.
Signs of this spirit also had appeared before the end of Louis's reign. As early as 1687 within a year of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes FONTENELLE, the nephew of Corneille, in his Histoire des Oracles, attacked the miraculous basis of Christianity under the pretence of exposing the religious credulity of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
I and II; and Belgian Democracy: its Early History, trans. by J. V. Saunders from the authoritative work of the famous Belgian historian Henri Pirenne . For the German city-states see references under HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE above. General: Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I , ch. x, iii; Histoire generale, Vol.
See also Kennedy, p. 240, and "F. L. Record," vol. ii. p. 15, where the late Mr. H. C. Coote quotes the "Transactions of the Ossianic Society." Comparetti, vol. i. p. 212. An English version is given by Mr. Coote, "F. L. Record," vol. ii. p. 12. Madame D'Aulnoy gives a similar story in her "Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Douglas," which seems to be the original of a tale in verse quoted by Mr.
In 1807 she was taken by her father, who was on Murat's staff, into Spain, from which she returned to the house of her grandmother, at Nohant in Berry. This old lady adopted Aurore at the death of her father, in 1808. Of her childhood George Sand has given a most picturesque account in her "Histoire de ma Vie."
I look round my study table and I survey those which lie with me at the moment, before I happily disperse them forever. I see La Croix's "Middle Ages," Oman's "Art of War," Rietstap's "Armorial General," De la Borderie's "Histoire de Bretagne," Dame Berner's "Boke of St.
Sociability is thus extended to the whole species not only to a given society, or to a nation, as we saw it with the ants. This is a widely-known fact in La Plata, verified by the author. Handbuch fur Juger und Jagdberechtigte, quoted by Brehm, ii. 223. Buffon's Histoire Naturelle.
Moreover, it is only accidentally that he mentions the circumstance to his landlord; "he came to see him for another purpose." Cf. "The Revolution," vol. Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal revolutionnaire de Paris," V., 368. "After the rout at Clisson, says the woman Laillet, he appeared in the popular club with a brigand's ear attached to his hat by way of cockade.
I was introduced to a new mode of style and literature: by the comparison of manners and opinions, my views were enlarged, my prejudices were corrected, and a copious voluntary abstract of the Histoire de l'Eglise et de l'Empire, by le Sueur, may be placed in a middle line between my childish and my manly studies.
"In the first volume of the 'Histoire de la Detention des Philosophes et des Gens de Lettres a la Bastille, etc., we find the following passage:
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