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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some…
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage…
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their…
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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule…
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men…
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where…
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We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
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We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were…
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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