 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 páginas
...distant nations," said they, " never spare the strangers ; their mutual wars fill their borders with bands of warriors ; the Great River abounds in monsters,...father ; and the docile nation joined him in prayer. At the last village on Fox River ever visited by the French, — where Kickapoos, Mascoutins, and Miamis,... | |
 | 1847 - 488 páginas
...Mississippi, were about to undertake their enterprising march, the very Indians warned them against it. "I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls," was Marquette's quiet and determined reply. When the guides deserted him through fear of the wild region... | |
 | 1847 - 496 páginas
...Mississippi, were about to undertake their enterprising march, the very Indians warned them against it. " I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls," was Marquette's quiet and determined reply. When the guides deserted him through fear of the wild region... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1848 - 480 páginas
...that those distant nations never spared the strangers,' the calm reply of the missionary was — ' I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls.' And then the red sons of the wilderness bowed with him in prayer, and before the simple cross of cedar,... | |
 | James Dixon - 1849 - 522 páginas
...distant nations,' said they, ' never spare the strangers ; their mutual wars fill their borders with bands of warriors ; the Great River abounds in monsters,...father ; and the docile nation joined him in prayer. " At the last village of the Fox River ever visited by the French, — where Kickapoos, Mascoutics,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1853 - 520 páginas
...they, " never pin, spare the strangers : their mutual wars fill their borEne-ed. r iftjG. ftcrs witn bands of warriors; the Great River abounds in monsters,...the last village on Fox River ever visited by the June 9 ' French, — where Kickapoos, Mascoutins, and Miamis dwelt together on a beautiful hill in... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 656 páginas
...on hearing his reply, the children of the wilderness united with him in prayer for his preservation. "At the last village on Fox River ever visited by the French," using the words of Bancroft the historian, for I can not have a better guide, "where Kickapoos, Mascoutins,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 478 páginas
...of Mexico. Marquette sought by his journey the honour of a higher master than an earthly sovereign ; "I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls," said he, in answer to a messenger of the Pottawatomies who warned him, " that these distant nations... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 670 páginas
...of Mexico. Marquette sought by his journey the honor of a higher master than an earthly sovereign: "I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls," said he, in answer to a messenger of the Potawatomies, who warned him "that these distant nations never... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 506 páginas
...they, " never pin, spare the strangers : their mutual wars fill their borEng. ed. * o ' 1696- ders with bands of warriors ; the Great River abounds in monsters,...the last village on Fox River ever visited by the June 9 'French, — where Kickapoos, Mascoutins, and Miamis dwelt together on a beautiful hill in the... | |
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Those distant nations," said they, " never spare the strangers; their mutual wars fill their borders with bands of warriors; the Great River abounds in monsters, which devour both men and canoes ; the excessive heats occasion death." " I shall gladly... 
