| Frederick Webb Hodge - 1917 - 1016 pages
...strip of bark around his naked body. When Lalemant1 saw the condition of his superior, he cried out, "We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men," and threw himself at Breboeuf's feet. The Indians then seized him, fastened him to a stake, and set... | |
| Frederick Webb Hodge - 1917 - 974 pages
...strip of bark around his naked body. When Lalemant2 saw the condition of his superior, he cried out, "We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men," and threw himself at Breboeuf's feet. The Indians then seized him, fastened him to a stake, and set... | |
| Charles Hallan McCarthy - 1919 - 560 pages
...with pitch were tied about his naked body. In the words of St. Paul he called out to his Superior: "We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men." He then threw himself at Bre"beuf's feet. Immediately he was seized by the Iroquois, who set fire to... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1983 - 1530 pages
...might see him tortured. They had tied strips of bark, smeared with pitch, about his naked body. When he saw the condition of his Superior, he could not hide...called out to him, with a broken voice, in the words of Saint Paul, "We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men." Then he threw himself at... | |
| Anne Dutton - 2003 - 484 pages
...above;"164 and, says Paul, "God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed unto death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,"165 in allusion to that cruel custom of the Romans, who, when they had condemned any person to... | |
| Royal Society of Canada - 1905 - 894 pages
...they fired, seaming his body with livid scars. As the stifling wreaths of smoke arose, he cried, " We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men." They then tore out his eyes, and soared the sockets with burning coals. In derision of the rite of... | |
| 1898 - 782 pages
...superhuman courage of Brébeuf and Lalemant when, the savages exhausting the last resources of torture, they are made "a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men " ; the fragments of a nation fleeing in terror to the tribes of West and North — all this is depicted... | |
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