Louis chose extension by land.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Although the labours of Colebrooke, Wilkins, Wilson, and others of our own countrymen, emulated by lv many learned men in France [viii] and Germany, [27] have revealed to Europe some of the hidden lore of India; still it is not pretended that we have done much more than pass the threshold of Indian science; and we are consequently not competent to speak decisively of its extent or its character.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Works of Chaucer, edited by Lounsbury (Crowell); Pollard's The Canterbury Tales, Eversley edition; Skeat's Selections from Chaucer (Clarendon Press); Chaucer's Prologue, and various tales, in Standard English Classics (Ginn and Company), and in other school series.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It is highly probable that these poems were interpolations into the "Catalogues" expanded by later poets from more summary notices in the genuine Hesiodic work and subsequently detached from their contexts and treated as independent.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Je viens du papier (publication régulière de nouvelles classées "X" en recueil collectif - Edition Blanche, La Bartavelle, La Musardine… - et un petit roman urbain, N'importawaque, aux éditions Fleuve Noir).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Criticism: Essays, by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Gates, in Studies and Appreciations; by Harrison, in Early Victorian Literature; by G.B. Smith, in Poets and Novelists.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

13 census erat brevis = list of property was short .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Criticism: Essays, by Lilly, in Four English Humorists; by Harrison, in Studies in Early Victorian Literature; by Scudder, in Social Ideals in English Letters; by Brownell, in Victorian Prose Masters.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

They often groped their way to the sea through underground channels, either beneath lakes or in passages which the streams themselves bored through limestone.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

[787] As we might expect, we find the warmest appreciation of celibacy expressed before Luther himself began to think of marriage, whereas, subsequent to 1525, his strictures on celibacy become more frequent.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Camped near Fort Benton; moved to Yellowstone country; some Crow escaped by letting themselves down from a rock with a rope; Yellow River, the place of the sun dance; camped at a place where Bad-tail killed a Sioux.
— from The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

He is almost the sufficient type of virtue, so far as virtue can ever be loved; for there is not a weakness in him which is not the [Pg 30] bastard of some good quality, and not an error which had an unsocial origin.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

Marie, 104 Anahotaha, Huron chief, joins Dollard, 69 , 71 Andros, Sir Edmund, governor of New England, 173 Argenson, Governor d', 29 ; his continual friction with Laval, 34 ; disapproves of the retreat of Captain Dupuis from the mission of Gannentaha, 67 Arnaud, Father, accompanies La Vérendrye as far as the Rocky Mountains, 11 Assise, François d', founder of the Franciscans, 18 Aubert, M., on the French-Canadians, 118 , 119 Auteuil, Denis Joseph Ruette d', solicitor-general of the Sovereign Council, 167 Avaugour, Governor d', withdraws his opposition to the liquor trade and is recalled, 38-40 ; his last report, 40 ; references, 10 , 28 B Bagot, Father , head of the college of La Flèche, 20 Bailly, François, directs the building of the Notre-Dame Church, 88 Bancroft, George, historian, quoted, 4 , 5 , 152 , 153 Beaudoncourt, Jacques de, quoted, 39 ; describes the escape of the Gannentaha mission from the massacre of 1658, 66 , 67 Beaumont, Hardouin de Péréfixe de, Archbishop of Paris, 134 Belmont, M. de, his charitable works, 135 , 136 ; preaches Laval's funeral oration, 265 Bernières, Henri de, first superior of the Quebec seminary, 55 , 56 ; entrusted with Laval's duties during his absence, 134 , 143 , 162 ; appointed dean of the chapter established by Laval, 197 ; his death, 239 Bernières, Jean de, his religious retreat at Caen, 24 , 25 ; referred to, 33 , 34 272 Berthelot, M., rents the abbey of Lestrées from Laval, 138 ; exchanges Ile Jésus for the Island of Orleans, 138 Bishop of Petræa, see Laval-Montmorency Bouchard, founder of the house of Montmorency, 16 Boucher, governor of Three Rivers, 29 Boudon, Abbé Henri-Marie, archdeacon of the Cathedral of Evreux, 23 Bourdon, solicitor-general, 79 Bourgard, Mgr., quoted, 61 Bourgeoys, Sister Marguerite, founds a school in Montreal which grows into the Ville-Marie Convent, 9 , 126 ; on board the plague-stricken St. André , 31 , 32 ; as a teacher, 91 , 92 , 156 ; through her efforts the church of Notre-Dame de Bonsecours is erected, 177 , 178 Bouteroue, M. de, commissioner during Talon's absence, 116 Brébeuf, Father, his persecution and death, 5 , 16 , 62 Bretonvilliers, M. de, superior of St. Sulpice, 88 , 89 , 135 , 162 Briand, Mgr., Bishop of Quebec, 12 Bizard, Lieutenant, dispatched by Frontenac to arrest the law-breakers and insulted by Perrot, 160 Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, the, 125 Brulon, Jean Gauthier de, confessor of the chapter established by Laval, 197 C Caen , the town of, 24 Callières, Chevalier de, governor of Montreal, 214 ; lays before the king a plan to conquer New York, 218 ; at Quebec when attacked by Phipps, 229 ; makes peace with the Indians, 235 ; his death, 235 Canons, the duties of, 196 , 197 Carignan Regiment, the, 53 , 77 , 79 , 114 Carion, M. Philippe de, 88 Cataraqui, Fort (Kingston), built by Frontenac and later called after him, 84 , 145 ; conceded to La Salle, 145 Cathedral of Quebec, the, 84 , 85 Champigny, M. de, commissioner, replaces Meulles, 204 , 215 Champlain, Samuel de, governor of New France and founder of Quebec, 4 , 8 , 12 Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de, on colonization, 117 , 118 ; his portrait of Frontenac, 144 , 145 Charron Brothers, the, make an unsuccessful attempt to establish a charitable house in Montreal, 125 , 245-8 Château St. Louis, 112 , 160 , 163 Chaumonot, Father, 65 ; the head of the Brotherhood of the Holy Family, 86 , 87 Chevestre, Françoise de, wife of Jean-Louis de Laval, 139 Clement X, Pope, 133 ; signs the bulls establishing the diocese of Quebec, 136 Closse, Major, 8 , 92 273 Colbert, Louis XIV's prime minister, 52 ; a letter from Villeray to, 77 , 78 ; opposes Talon's immigration plans, 80 ; receives a letter from Talon, 107 ; Talon's proposals to, 115 ; a dispatch from Frontenac to, 161 ; reproves Frontenac's overbearing conduct, 165 ; asks for proof of the evils of the liquor traffic, 170 , 171 Collège de Clermont, 21 , 22 College of Montreal, the, 124 , 125 Colombière, M. de la, quoted, 23 , 256 , 257 Company of Montreal, the, 25 ; its financial obligations taken up by the Seminary of St. Sulpice, 135 Company of Notre-Dame of Montreal, 85 , 108 , 127 , 189 Company of the Cent-Associés, founded by Richelieu, 4 ; incapable of colonizing New France, abandons it to the royal government, 40 , 41 ; assists the missionaries, 50 ; a portion of its obligations undertaken by the West India Company, 145 Consistorial Congregation of Rome, the, 132 Couillard, Madame, the house of, 58 Courcelles, M. de, appointed governor in de Mézy's place, 51 ; acts as godfather to Garakontié, Indian chief, 65 ; an instance of his firmness, 82 , 83 ; meets the Indian chiefs at Cataraqui, and gains their approval of building a fort there, 84 ; succeeded by Frontenac, 84 ; lays the corner-stone of the Notre-Dame Church in Montreal, 88 ; returns to France, 143 Coureurs de bois , the, 158 , 159 Crèvecœur, Fort, 148 , 149 D Dablon, Father , 11 , 62 , 65 ; describes Laval's visit to the Prairie de la Madeleine, 74 , 75 ; quoted, 103 , 140 Damours, M., member of the Sovereign Council, 158 , 166 ; imprisoned by Frontenac, 167 Daniel, Father, his death, 5 Denonville, Marquis de, succeeds de la Barre, 193 , 202 , 204 ; urges Laval's return to Canada, 213 ; his expedition against the Iroquois, 214-16 ; seizes Indian chiefs to serve on the king's galleys, 214 , 215 ; builds a fort at Niagara, 216 ; recalled, 218 Dequen, Father, 32 , 33 Dollard, makes a brave stand against the Iroquois, 39 , 68-72 , 75 (note)
— from The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond

Schelling’s philosophy is no completed system of which his separate works are the constituent elements; but, like Plato’s, it has a historical development, a course of formative steps which the philosopher has passed through in his [Pg 314] own life.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

Having vainly attempted, by raillery as well as by engaging his attention, to get the better of this abstraction and gloom, Lord Glenmore let the matter pass, and addressed his conversation elsewhere; but Lady Tenderden was not to be diverted from her purpose, and she took up the thread of discourse, requesting to know if Lady Adeline Seymour had imposed a vow of silence upon him, or what other cause had so changed him since he was last at Restormel?
— from The Exclusives (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady