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In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

— Francis Parkman Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

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France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)

A happier calamity never befell a people than the conquest of Canada by the British arms.

The Old Régime in Canada (1874)

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

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Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

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The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards.

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