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

"The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achi…"

"A boundless vision grows upon us; an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure; mountains silent in primeval s…"

"Every ship from the New World came freighted with marvels which put the fictions of chivalry to shame; and to the Spa…"

"The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream t…"

"In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world…"

"In the year 1562 a cloud of black and deadly portent was thickening over France. Surely and swiftly she glided toward…"

"Mistress of the Indies, Spain swarmed with beggars. Yet, verging to decay, she had an ominous and appalling strength.…"

"America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond…"

"Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special …"