 A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero, and its greatest martyr. He came of a noble race, — the same, it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of Arundel;...  The Catholic Record - 217. oldal1878Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Francis Parkman - 1867 - 570 oldal
...with it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and " his death was the astonishment of his murderers."1 In him an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic nature. His bodily endowments... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1867 - 1192 oldal
...with it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the. founder of the Huron mission, its...the mailed barons of his line « confronted a fate BO appalling, with so prodigious a constancy. To the last he refused to flinch, and " his death was... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 562 oldal
...gifts of an apostle more abundantly than the martyr Jean de Br^beuf. Mr. Parkman calls him " the Ajax of the Huron mission, its truest hero, and its greatest martyr." He exhausts in his favour the language of eulogy. " Of the same race as the English earls of Arundel,... | |
 | 1871 - 884 oldal
...our annals for the variety and atrocity of his torments." " He came of a noble race," says Parkman, " the same, it is said, from which sprang the English...flinch, and his death was the astonishment of his murderers." Praise has become exhausted on such a subject. Would that we might hope for some national... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1874 - 460 oldal
...with it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...greatest martyr. He came of a noble race, the same from which sprang the English earls of Arundel ; but never had the mailed barons of his line confronted... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1875 - 366 oldal
...coals ; and after four hours of torture, a chief tore out his heart and devoured it. " Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and ' his death was the astonishment of his murderers.'" The delicate and slender Lalemant, Brebeuf 's colleague on the mission, was tortured for... | |
 | james r. osgood and company - 1875 - 382 oldal
...coals ; and after four hours of torture, a chief tore out his heart and devoured it. " Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and ' his death was the astonishment of his murderers.' " The delicate and slender Lalemant, Brebeuf 's colleague on the mission, was tortured... | |
 | Maritime provinces - 1875 - 412 oldal
...after four hours of torture, a chief tore out his heart and devoured it. " Thus died Jean de Brébeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero,...flinch, and ' his death was the astonishment of his murderers.' " The delicate and slender Lalemant, Brébeuf 's colleague ou the mission, was tortured... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 350 oldal
...it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart and devoured it. 6. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and " his death was the astonishment of his murderers." In him an enthusiastic s devotion was grafted on a heroic 6 nature. 7. His bodily endowments... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 oldal
...it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart and devoured it. 6. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...truest hero and its greatest martyr. He came of a noble race—the same, it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of Arundel; but never had the mailed... | |
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