Western CharactersRedfield, 1853 - 378页 |
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American ARSENE HOUSSAYE ascer authority barbarous became belonged Cahokia called CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO cause character characteristics citizens civilization contempt courage course Cutler danger defence Driscol duties eighteen hundred Elwood emigration enemy entered eyes fact faith father feeling forest French friends frontier gave give Grayson habits hand heart honor horse idea Illinois Illinois river Indian Iroquois justice Kaskaskia knew labor Lake Michigan land latter lived maize manner Margaret Roberts Marquette marriage means ment miles mind missionary Mississippi Missouri nations nature neighbors never once peace pioneer political possession prairie present primitive probably punishment puritans race rangers reached regulators respectable rifle river savage scalp schoolmaster seldom settlement Shakespeare Shawanese sometimes soon spirit stoicism Stone success tained things thought tion trait tribes usually voyageur western wife wild wilderness words
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第77页 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
第75页 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
第287页 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
第324页 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
第104页 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
第32页 - Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe. It describes the flowing, not the fixed. It does not define the limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.
第246页 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
第105页 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
第38页 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
第52页 - It is to be doubted, whether some part of this vaunted stoicism be not the result of a more than ordinary degree of physical insensibility.