 | James Fenimore Cooper - Frontier and pioneer life - 1853 - 472 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the 'women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear gf the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 526 pages
...for,the truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to mispend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all the Bumppos could shoot; for... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 542 pages
...the truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to mispend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all the Bumppos could shoot; for... | |
 | J. Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 526 pages
...the truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to mispend his days among the women, in learning -the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all the Bumppos could shoot; for... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1867 - 960 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the «te«tb of hi« fathers, nor feel a pride in «riving to outdo them. For myself, 1 conclude all the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1871 - 507 pages
...the truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to mispend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all the Bumppos could shoot; for... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1875 - 510 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the •women, in learning the names...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude all the Bumppos could shoot, for... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1876 - 490 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1883 - 496 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Mohegan Indians - 1896 - 468 pages
...truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of...marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself I conclude all the 15umppos could shoot; for... | |
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reappear in the novel as a problem of language, and specifically as the problematic involvement of women with reading and writing. Natty Bumppo resentfully notes that "a man who is too conscientious to spend his days among the women, in learning the names... 
