Quotes by Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Adventure

Land

Sea

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Kansas

Morning

Mouths

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.

Character

History

Taken

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Block

House

Two

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Men

Missing You

Morning

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

England

Exclusion

Principles

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Art

Men

Rude

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Faithful

Humanity

Use

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,–the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

Ambitious

Character

Race

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

Europe

Shadow

World

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Adventure

Air

Ambition

Ambitious

Animal

Art

Block

Character

Clouds

Discovery

Earning

England

Europe

Exclusion

Expectations

Faithful

France

History

Horse

House

Humanity

Hunting

Issues

Kansas

Land

Light

Men

Missing You

Morning

Mouths

Passion

Principles

Race

Reaching

Religious

Rude

Sea

Shadow

Solitary

Strong

Taken

Trails

Two

Use

Versailles

Volunteer

Walking

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Quotes by Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,–the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

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