He was a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front hardship and danger, the rage of man and of the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast, fatigue, famine, and disease, delay, disappointment, and deferred hope, emptied their quivers in... The Discovery of the Great West - Стр. 366авторы: Francis Parkman - 1869 - Страниц: 425Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - 1874 - Страниц: 978
...He was a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front hardship and danger, the rage of man and the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast,...impenetrable mail of paladin or crusader beat a heart of mure iutrepid mettle limn within the stoic panoply that armed the breast of LaSalle. To estimate aright... | |
| Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - 1877 - Страниц: 974
...a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front hardship and danger, the гаде of Tiiau and the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast,...delay, disappointment and deferred hope, emptied their qui vera in vain. That very pride which, Coriolanus-like, declared itself most sternly in the thickest... | |
| John Charles Dent - 1881 - Страниц: 360
...hero, not of a principle nor of a III— 13 faith, but simply of a fixed idea and a determined purpose. It is easy to reckon up his defects, but it is not...and deferred hope, emptied their quivers in vain. Never under the impenetrable mail of paladin or crusader beat a heart of more intrepid mettle than... | |
| Henry Bruce - 1891 - Страниц: 276
...prey to the wolves and the buzzards. He was not yet forty-four. " It is easy," says Mr. Parkman, " to reckon up his defects, but it is not easy to hide...disappointment, and deferred hope emptied their quivers in vain. ... To estimate aright the marvels of his patient fortitude, one must follow on his track through the... | |
| John McConniff - 1892 - Страниц: 112
...He was a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front hardship and danger, the rage of man and the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast, fatigue, famine and disease, delays, disappointment, and deferred hope emptied their quivers in vain. That very pride which, Cariolanus-like,... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - 1893 - Страниц: 452
...prey to the wolves and the buzzards. He was not yet forty-four. " It is easy," says Mr. Parkman, " to reckon up his defects, but it is not easy to hide...disappointment, and deferred hope emptied their quivers in vain. ... To estimate aright the marvels of his patient fortitude, one must follow on his track through the... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1897 - Страниц: 324
...danger, the rage of man and of the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast, fatigue, famine, disease, delay, disappointment, and deferred hope...under the impenetrable mail of paladin or crusader, teat a heart of more intrepid mettle than within the stoic panoply that armed the breast of La Salle.... | |
| Edward Gay Mason - 1901 - Страниц: 352
...He was a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front, hardship and danger, the rage of men and the elements, the southern sun, the northern blast,...disappointment, and deferred hope emptied their quivers in vain. . . . America owes him an enduring memory, for in this masculine figure she sees the pioneer who guided... | |
| 1904 - Страниц: 668
...of fire and flood, have stood in its way, and over them all it has triumphed gloriously. It has been "a tower of adamant, against whose impregnable front...disease, delay, disappointment and deferred hope, have emptied their quivers in vain." Half a century ago it first broke the stillness of the Western... | |
| Illinois State Historical Library - 1904 - Страниц: 780
...above them all. He was a tower of adamant against whose front hardships and danger, the rage of men and of the elements, the southern sun, the northern...fatigue, famine and disease, delay, disappointment and hope deferred, emptied their quivers in vain." During these last dark days of LaSalle's career, Tonti,... | |
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