A true hero, after the chivalrous mediaeval type, his [Champlain's] character was dashed largely with the spirit of romance. Though earnest, sagacious, and penetrating, he leaned to the marvellous; and the faith which was the life of his hard career was somewhat prone to overstep the bounds of reason and invade the domain of fancy.

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of r…

Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the ret…

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

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

No historical fact is better established, than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity : Nor was the un…

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never a…