| North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...torturing fires of his enemy, the haughty sufferer maintains to the last his look of grim defiance." " Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...greatest strength ; but the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You cannot change the form without destruction of the substance. Such, at least, has too often... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 566 pages
...torturing fires of his enemy, the haughty sufferer maintains to the last his look of grim defiance." " Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...greatest strength ; but the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You cannot change the form without destruction of the substance. Such, at least, has too often... | |
| Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1880 - 402 pages
...makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of war or policy. f Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...flexibility with the greatest strength. But the Indian |_is hewn out of a rock. You can rarely change the form without destruction of the substance. Races... | |
| Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1884 - 400 pages
...makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of wal or policy. Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...the greatest strength. But the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You can rarely change the form without destruction of the substance. Races of inferior energy... | |
| Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1892 - 408 pages
...makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of war or policy. Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...the greatest strength. But the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You can rarely change the form without destruction of the substance. Races of inferior energy... | |
| Francis Parkman - America - 1898 - 316 pages
...makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of war or policy. Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...the greatest strength. But the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You can rarely change the form without destruction of the substance. Races of inferior energy... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of war or policy. Some races of men seem moulded in wax, soft and melting,...the greatest strength. But the Indian is hewn out of a rock. You can rarely change the form without destruction of the substance. Races of inferior energy... | |
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