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" The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America: not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way. "
Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the ... - Page 331
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - Architecture, Domestic - 1853 - 670 pages
...their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America: not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The Jesuits, Bribeuf and Daniel, and the gentle Lallemand, accompanied a party of barefooted Hurons...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1853 - 478 pages
...their labours is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America : not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The Jesuits, Bribeuf and Daniel, and the gentle Lallemand, accompanied a party of bare-footed Hurons...
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A Popular History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volume 1

Mary Howitt - United States - 1859 - 460 pages
...labours is conneeted With the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French Ameriea; not a eape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." In 1634, two Jesuits, Brebcuf and Danicl, left Quebee in company with a party of Huron Indians, who...
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Christian Missions; Their Agents, Their Method, and Their Results, Volume 3

Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1862 - 514 pages
...their labours is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America : not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way. ยป (1) Let us see through what perils and sufferings itconducted then). (I) Bancroft, II, 783. In 1641,...
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Christian Missions: Their Agents, and Their Results, Volume 2

Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1864 - 522 pages
...their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America; not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way,"* Let us see through what perils and suiferings it conducted them, zeal of the French bear the Cross...
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The Jesuits: Their Foundation and History

Barbara Frances Mary Neave Comtesse de Courson, N. B. - 1879 - 380 pages
...Bancroft, ' is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America ; not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way.'f Thus it was a Jesuit, Father Allonez, who made known Lake Superior, and Father Marquette who...
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Bay State Monthly, Volume 10; Volume 16

New England - 1894 - 808 pages
...Bancroft, " is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America. Not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." "They had put forth exertions almost superhuman," says Parkman, " set at naught famine, disease, and...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

United States - 1898 - 1292 pages
...prosecution. They were explorers as well as priests. Bancroft was inexact when he said, in oft-quoted phrase, "Not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." The actual pioneers of New France were almost always coureurs de bois, in the prosecution of the fur...
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Leading Events of Wisconsin History: The Story of the State

Henry Eduard Legler - Wisconsin - 1898 - 332 pages
...pages, between the covers of begrimed parchment." Bancroft's oft-quoted sentence that in the new world "not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way," is based on error. The soldier of fortune came with the sword before the soldier of the cross came...
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Religion Under the Barons of Baltimore: Being a Sketch of Ecclesiastical ...

Charles Ernest Smith - Freedom of religion - 1899 - 412 pages
...Bancroft, " is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America, not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way ! " Moreover, obedience was the rule of their life. They were emphatically "the men who obey orders."...
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