 It will be dictated by our hearts, whose inspirations an obedient hand is ready to record. Seven millions of royal paper constituted all the currency of this colony and the fortune' of its citizens ; the total withdrawing of this capital, the payment...  History of Louisiana - Page 352by Charles Gayarré - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Philip Pittman - Mississippi River - 1770 - 138 pages
...of Odtober, I759, has reduced the province of Louifiana to the moft deplorable fituation. We fhall not undertake to enter into a detail of the calamities, of the ruined fortunes, of the downfal of families, which were the fatal confequences of that cataflrophe ; the court has before its... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1852 - 388 pages
...withdrawing of this capital, the payment of which his Majesty suspended by an edict of October 1769, has reduced the province of Louisiana to the most...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe ; they had considered the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - Louisiana - 1853 - 314 pages
...and thou, dear country, whose prosperity is the object of our most ardent wishes ; and you who are to us what Sparta, Athens and Rome were to their zealous...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe ; they had considered the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - Louisiana - 1853 - 316 pages
...and thou, dear country, whose prosperity is the object of our most ardent wishes ; and you who are to us what Sparta, Athens and Rome were to their zealous...affairs of the unhappy victims of that event, has beforejts eyes a more striking picture of our misfortunes than it is possible for us to paint. Recovered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1853 - 326 pages
...colony and the fortune of its citizens ; the total withdrawing of this capital, the payment of whic^i his majesty suspended by an edict of October, 1759,...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe ; they had considered the... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 392 pages
...ministry : and thou, dear country, whose prosperity is the object of our most ardent wishes ; thou, that art to us what Sparta, Athens, and Rome were...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe ; they had considered the... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 390 pages
...withdrawing of this capital, the payment of which his Majesty suspended by an edict of October 1750, has reduced the province of Louisiana to the most...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe ; they had considered the... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1866 - 932 pages
...ministry : and thou, dear country, whose prosperity is the object of our most ardent wishes; thou, that art to us what Sparta, Athens, and Rome were...paint. Recovered from the depression into which they had been plunged, the citizens of Louisiana had begun at last to breathe; they had considered the conclusion... | |
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