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" ... apostolic zeal. The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America : not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way. "
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America - Page 260
by Fredrika Bremer - 1853
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 670 pages
...tqjls •>fa long mission, still kindled with the fervor of apostolic zeal. The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town...through dangerous forests. They won the regard and the Fove of the savages. Bribeuf, who is said to have been the pattern of every religious virtue, lived...
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A Popular History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volume 1

Mary Howitt - 1859 - 460 pages
...labours is conneeted With the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French Ameriea; not a eape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." In 1634, two Jesuits, Brebcuf and Danicl, left Quebee in company with a party of Huron Indians, who...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

1898 - 1292 pages
...prosecution. They were explorers as well as priests. Bancroft was inexact when he said, in oft-quoted phrase, "Not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The actual pioneers of New France were almost always coureurs de bois, in the prosecution of the fur trade:...
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Leading Events of Wisconsin History: The Story of the State

Henry Eduard Legler - 1898 - 332 pages
...pages, between the covers of begrimed parchment." Bancroft's oft-quoted sentence that in the new world "not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way," is based on error. The soldier of fortune came with the sword before the soldier of the cross came...
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Champlain: A Drama in Three Acts

John Murdoch Harper - 1908 - 320 pages
...brotherhood who spent their lives in opening up the continent. As the historian Bancroft says of them : " The history of their labours is connected with the...not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The order was re-organized under the sanction of the Papal Bull of 1814. was confirmed by Pope Honorius...
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Champlain: A Drama in Three Acts

John Murdoch Harper - 1908 - 316 pages
...brotherhood who spent their lives in opening up the continent. As the historian Bancroft says of them : " The history of their labours is connected with the...not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The order was re-organized under the sanction of the Papal Bull of 1814. was confirmed by Pope Honorius...
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A Voice from the West: A Few Sketches Written in Various Moods -culled from ...

Ismena Teresa Martin - 1908 - 266 pages
...were monsters, according to the anglican, although Bancroft says of them: "The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town...not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The poor little powder puff rector is badly mixed in his dates; in his egotism he fondly hopes to destroy...
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Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times ..., Volume 1

Jerome Anthony Watrous - 1909 - 680 pages
...their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town; in the annals of French-Americans not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." After the suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 the whole of what now constitutes the states of Michigan...
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The Makers of Maine: Essays and Tales of Early Maine History, from the First ...

Herbert Edgar Holmes - 1912 - 290 pages
...period of our history would be at this day absolutely a closed book. The historian, Bancroft, says: "not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." And fortunately for history, the rules of the Society required every Jesuit missionary to write a daily...
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Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Volume 2

1915 - 322 pages
...period of our history would be at this day absolutely a closed book. The historian, Bancroft, says: "Not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." And fortunately for history, the rules of the Society required every Jesuit missionary to write a daily...
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