Père Marquette, Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer: Decorations de Harry CiminoDoubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1929 - 298 頁 |
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adventurers Algonquins beautiful braves calumet Canadian canoes carried ceremony chief Christian civilization corn courage danger death dians discovery expedition explorers eyes fear feast fire fish France François François Le Mercier French Frenchmen friendly Frontenac Gulf of Mexico heart hostile Hurons Ignace Illinois Indians Iroquois Jacques Marquette Jesuits journey knew Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior land Laon lived Louis Joliet Marquette and Joliet mind mission missionaries Mississippi natural never numbers Ojibwas Ottawas paddled Père Allouez Père Brébeuf Père Charlevoix Père Dablon Père Le Jeune Père Mar Père Marquette Père Marquette's journal perilous plenty priest Quebec quette reached Récollet reports river sagamité Salle Sault savages sent shore of Lake Sioux Soto soul spirit squaws strong things tion told took trade tribes unknown village voyage warrior wigwams wild wilderness winter woods words wrote Père Marquette young
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第 285 頁 - Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow, As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
第 4 頁 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
第 256 頁 - ... aright the marvels of his patient fortitude, one must follow on his track through the vast scene of his interminable journeyings, — those thousands of weary miles of forest, marsh, and river, where, again and again, in the bitterness of baffled striving, the untiring pilgrim pushed onward towards the goal which he was never to attain. America owes him an enduring memory ; for in this masculine figure she sees the pioneer who guided her to the possession of her richest heritage.1 1 On the assassination...
第 149 頁 - They believe that there are two main sources of disease : one of these is in the mind of the patient himself, which desires something, and will vex the body of the sick man until it possesses the thing required. For they think that there are in every man certain inborn desires, often unknown to themselves, upon which the happiness of individuals depends.
第 62 頁 - But it is so stinking, and casts so foul an odor, that it is unworthy of being called the dog of Pluto. No sewer ever smelled so bad. I would not have believed it if I had not smelled it myself. Your heart almost fails you when you approach the animal; two have been killed in our court, and several days afterward there was such a dreadful odor throughout our house that we could not endure it. I believe the sin smelled by sainte Catherine de Sienne must have had the same vile odor.
第 108 頁 - Outaouacs, where he has passed several years. He possesses tact and prudence, which are the chief qualities necessary for the success of a voyage as dangerous as it is difficult. Finally, he has the courage to dread nothing where everything is to be feared.
第 63 頁 - It hums in flying, like the bee; I have sometimes seen it hold itself in the air and stick its bill into a flower. Its bill is rather long, and its plumage seems to be a mottled green. Those who call it the flower-bird would, in my opinion, speak more correctly if they would call it the flower of birds.
第 141 頁 - I thank thee, Black Gown, and thee, O frenchman," — addressing himself to Monsieur Jollyet, — "for having taken so much trouble to come to visit us. Never has the earth been so beautiful, or the sun so Bright, as today; Never has our river been so Calm, or so clear of Rocks, which your canoes have Removed in passing; never has our tobacco tasted so good, or our corn appeared so fine, as We now see Them.
第 62 頁 - It is more white than black ; and, at the first glance, you would say, especially when it walks, that it ought to be called Jupiter's little dog. But it is so stinking, and casts so foul an odor, that it is unworthy of being called the dog of Pluto. No sewer ever smelled so bad. I would not have believed it if I had not smelled it myself. Your heart almost fails you when you approach the animal; two have been killed in our court, and several...
第 280 頁 - Joliet; on the 278 other a North American Indian carrying heavy burdens. The bronze reliefs which embellish the Marquette Building in Chicago, and which tell the tale of the discovery of the upper waters of the Mississippi, are also the work of Mr. MacNeil. They have a highly decorative quality, and serve to keep the memory of the expedition and of its glorious results before the minds of men. If all these representations appear a little dramatic, a little florid and robust, it is because no one...