 ... Races of inferior energy have possessed a power of expansion and assimilation to which he is a stranger; and it is this fixed and rigid quality which has proved his ruin. He will not learn the arts of civilization, and he and his forest must perish...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Pàgina 169editat per - 1851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1851 - 568 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration, from their very immutability...of heroic virtues — a hand bountiful to bestow, as it is rapacious to seize, and, even in extremest famine, imparting its last morsel to a fellow-sufferer... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1851 - 566 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration, from their very immutability...of heroic virtues — a hand bountiful to bestow, as it is rapacious to seize, and, even in extremest famine, imparting its last morsel to a fellow-sufferer... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1868 - 668 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration, from their very immutability...of heroic virtues — a hand bountiful to bestow, as it is rapacious to seize, and, even in extremes t famine, imparting its last morsel to a fellowsufferer;... | |
 | Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester - 1877 - 336 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability...interest on the fate of this irreclaimable son of the wilder* Francis Parkman. ness, the child who will not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1880 - 402 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability...increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer the germs of heroic virtues mingled among his vices, — a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 400 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability...increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer the germs of heroic virtues mingled among his vices, — a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer the germs of heroic virtues mingled among his vices, —a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer the germs of heroic virtues mingled among his vices, — a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 316 pàgines
...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer the germs of heroic virtues mingled among his vices, — a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1899 - 408 pàgines
...immutability; and we look with deep interest on the fate of this irreclaimable child of the wilderness who will not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother." Few histories leave upon the mind of an American reader so salutary an impression of progress as Parkman's.... | |
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