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 - 1880 - 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...it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of Anmdel; but never had the mailed barons of his line confronted a fate so appalling, with so prodigious... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1881 - 424 oldal
...after four hours of such bitter 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 bones of Lalemant, his colleague on the mission, who died after seventeen hours of... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1882 - 568 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... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - 1882 - 424 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... | |
| 1883 - 420 oldal
...after four hours of torture, a chief tore out his heart and devoured it. " Thns died Jean de Bréheuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero,...martyr. He came of a noble race, — the same, it i- said, from which sprang the English Earls of Arundel ; but never had the mailed barons of his line... | |
| Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 oldal
...protest that the fires of the Iroquois are one of their motives for the journey. . . Thus died Jean de Brebeuf , the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and ' his death was the astonishment of his murderers.' . . Lalemant, physically weak from childhood, and slender almost to emaciation, was constitutionally... | |
| Henry Clay Trumbull - 1885 - 374 oldal
...esteem, as heroic beyond compare. " He came of a noble race," says Parkman,2 — "the same [race], it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of...the last he refused to flinch, and ' his death was an astonishment to his murderers.' " " We saw no part of his body," wrote an eye witness,3 " from head... | |
| Henry Clay Trumbull - 1885 - 372 oldal
...esteem, as heroic beyond compare. " He came of a noble race," says Parkman,2 — "the same [race], it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of...the last he refused to flinch, and ' his death was an astonishment to his murderers.' " " We saw no part of his body," wrote an eye witness,8 " from head... | |
| Henry Clay Trumbull - 1885 - 372 oldal
...esteem, as heroic beyond compare. " He came of a noble race," says Parkman,2 — "the same [race], it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of...the last he refused to flinch, and ' his death was an astonishment to his murderers.' " " We saw no part of his body," wrote an eye witness,3 " from head... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1885 - 384 oldal
...after four hours of torture, a chief tore 'out his heart and devoured it. " Thus died Jean de Bréheuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero, and its greatest martyr He came of a nohle raie, — the same, it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of Arundel ; hut never had... | |
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