"Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent……" — Francis Parkman
"Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity."
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22 Quotes by Francis Parkman
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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected…
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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…
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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…
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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an…
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces,…
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton;…
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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…
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More Crossing Quotes
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
— Douglas Adams
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
— Felix Baumgartner
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
— Buffalo Bill
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
— Luther Burbank
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
— Sherman Alexie
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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the…
— Mark Helprin
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Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an…
— Bill Maher
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I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I…
— George Carlin
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