In him an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic nature. His bodily endowments were as remarkable as the temper of his mind. His manly proportions, his strength, and his endurance, which incessant fasts and penances could not undermine, had always... The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs - Página 2661893Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Francis Parkman - 1867 - 1192 páginas
...constancy. To the last he refused to flinch, and " his death was the astonishment of his murderers." ' In him an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an...Indians, no less than a courage unconscious of fear, aud yet redeemed from rashness by a cool and vigorous judgment ; for, extravagant as were the chimeras... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 350 páginas
...astonishment of his murderers." In him an enthusiastic s devotion was grafted on a heroic 6 nature. 7. His bodily endowments were as remarkable as the temper...endurance, which incessant * fasts and penances could not undermine,8 had always won for him the respect of the Indians, no less than a courage, unconscious... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 páginas
...astonishment of his murderers." In him an enthusiastic 6 devotion was grafted on a heroic 6 nature. 7. His bodily endowments were as remarkable as the temper...proportions, his strength, and his endurance, which incessant 7 fasts and penances could not undermine, 8 had always won for him the respect of the Indians, no less... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1895 - 588 páginas
...constancy. To the last he refused to flinch, and " his death was the astonishment of his murderers."t In him an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic nature. His bodily endowments nere as remarkable as the temper of his mind. His manly proportions, his strength, and his endurance,... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1908 - 494 páginas
...another type, exhausts the vocabulary of praise in describing his deeds. "In Br6beuf," says Parkman, "an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic...redeemed from rashness by a cool and vigorous judgment." These are but a few of the abundantly numerous panegyrics which Br6beuf by his life and death has extorted... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1908 - 426 páginas
...another type, exhausts the vocabulary of praise in describing his deeds. "In Br6beuf," says Parkman, "an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic...redeemed from rashness by a cool and vigorous judgment." These are but a few of the abundantly numerous panegyrics which Brebeuf by his life and death has extorted... | |
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