 Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.  The Oregon Trail - Page 103de Francis Parkman - 1910 - 553 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Francis Parkman - 1852 - 466 pages
...the strength of his arm and the valor of his heart. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck...hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie ; and to reach that point cost us the travel of three additional weeks. During the whole of... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1875 - 406 pages
...over the sand and through the rank grass and prickly pears at our feet. We had passed the more tedious part of the journey ; but four hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie ; and to reach that point cost us the travel of three more weeks. During the whole of this... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 286 pages
...over the sand and through the rank grass and prickly pears at our feet. We had passed the more tedious part of the journey ; but four hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie; and to reach that point cost us the travel of three more weeks. During the whole of this time... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 400 pages
...the strength of his arm and the valor of his heart. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck...hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie; and to reach that point cost us the travel of three additional weeks. During the whole of... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 346 pages
...the strength of his arm and the valor of his heart. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck...hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie, and to reach that point cost us the travel of three additional weeks. During the whole of... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1918 - 428 pages
...and the valor of his heart. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art of the journey; but four hundred miles still intervened between us and Fort Laramie; and to reach that point cost us the travel of three additional weeks. During the whole of... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1991 - 1012 pages
...the strength of his arm and the valor of his heart. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck...resources of their original natures. We had passed die more toilsome and monotonous part of the journey; but four hundred miles still intervened between... | |
 | Lucy Maddox - 1991 - 211 pages
...firsthand account of the lawless frontier, a place where the intrepid traveler finds, Parkman says, that "the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces" (105). In this out-of-bounds text, a text ungoverned by literary convention, Parkman does not need... | |
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