 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 pages
...conflagration which Frederick's act had kindled : " In order that he might rob a neighbor," he says, " whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." The war went on until 1748, when it was closed by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Carlyle's summing-up... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 pages
...resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. ibid. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had...promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Cororaandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes Of North America. On Frederic the Great.... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1903 - 756 pages
...as the " Great French War," or the " French and Indian War." The struggle was literally world-wide. Red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America, and black men fought in Senegal in Africa; while Frenchmen and Englishmen grappled in India as well... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1904 - 266 pages
...were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness [for he had struck the first blow] were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown,...scalped each other by the great Lakes of North America." We need not follow the fortunes of this war. Irish interest in it centres in a single battle ; and... | |
 | 1904 - 528 pages
...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown, and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." With those inscriptions upon it, the statue would be comparatively harmless [Applause], and we wait... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1905 - 394 pages
...in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column at Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice or injustice of the thought, note the singular force and beauty of this passage,... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1905 - 870 pages
...conflagration which Frederick's act had kindled : " In order that he might rob a neighbor," he says, " whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." The war went on until 1748, when it was closed by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Carlyle's summing up... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1906 - 500 pages
...conflagration which Frederick's act had kindled : " In order that he might rob a neighbor," he says, " whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." The war went on until 1748, when it was closed by- the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Carlyle's summing... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1907 - 498 pages
...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice or injustice of the thought, note the singular force and beauty of this passage,... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1907 - 496 pages
...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandcl, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice... | |
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Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America... 
