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" War, that is, the war that ended in the conquest of Canada, for here, as it seemed to me, the forest drama was more stirring and the forest stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years... "
A Century of Science and Other Essays - Page 227
by John Fiske - 1899 - 477 pages
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1894 - 508 pages
...passage of our history." — This was about 1842. — "It was not till some years later," he goes on, " that I enlarged the plan to include the whole course...it. My theme fascinated me, and I was haunted with wilderues> images day and night.'' The purpose thus conceived he always adhered to. In carrying it...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1894 - 508 pages
...about 1842. — "It was uot till some years later," he goes on, " that I enlarged the plan to inclnde the whole course of the American conflict between...which I regarded it. My theme fascinated me, and I was hannted with wilderness images day and night." The purpose thus conceived he always adhered to. In...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1894 - 638 pages
...stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include...the whole course of the American conflict between Fiance and England, or, in other words, the history of the American forest, for this was the light...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29

Humanities - 1894 - 542 pages
...passage of our history." — This was about 1842. — " It was not till some years later," he goes on, " that I enlarged the plan to include the whole course of the American conflict between France and Knglaml, or, in other words, the history of the American forest ; for this was the light in which I...
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Self Culture, Volume 11

Self-culture - 1900 - 654 pages
...Old French War," a theme which gradually widened in the execution of his plan until it included (( the whole course of the American conflict between...other words, the history of the American forest." Never did lover celebrate the virtues of his mistress with more singleness of devotion than Parkman...
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A Life of Francis Parkman

Charles Haight Farnham - Explorers - 1901 - 440 pages
...stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include...was haunted with wilderness images day and night." a blanket.1 Another cause added not a little to the growing evil. It was impossible that conditions...
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The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky ...

Francis Parkman - California National Historic Trail - 1901 - 446 pages
...forest-stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include...it. My theme fascinated me, and I was haunted with wilderness-images day and night." No one of our American historians determined upon his career and...
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Essays in Historical Criticism ...

Edward Gaylord Bourne - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 328 pages
...stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include...forest; for this was the light in which I regarded it. Mv theme fascinated me, and I was haunted with wilderness images day and night." >'o on* of oar American...
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American Literature

Julian Willis Abernethy - American literature - 1902 - 552 pages
...writing the story of what was then known as the ' Old French War,' " the plan being enlarged later " to include the whole course of the American conflict...other words, the history of the American forest." For the accomplishment of this great literary purpose he prepared himself with systematic and singular...
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Biographic Clinics: The origin of the ill-health of George Eliot, George ...

George Milbry Gould - Asthenopia - 1903 - 414 pages
...stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include...was haunted with wilderness images day and night. " From this time forward, two ideas possessed me. One was to paint the forest and its tenants in true...
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