"The toute ensemble was such as to make……" — Zebulon Pike
"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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32 Quotes by Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike has 32 quotes on this site.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like…
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not…
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force…
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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More Blush Quotes
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one of 197 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
— Charles Darwin
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
— Charles Darwin
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
— George Herbert
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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