 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 604 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows who, with...strange migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and .society,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 660 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows who, with...have often perplexed myself to divine the various mo-, lives that give impulse to this strange migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane... | |
 | 1847 - 886 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows who, with their long whips in their hands, were zealously discuss-; ing the doctrine of regeneration. The emigrants, however, are not all of this stamp. Among... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1875 - 406 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,...divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 406 páginas
...soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who, witli their long whips in their hands, were zealously discussing...divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 286 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,...of the vilest outcasts in the country. I have often per10 THE OREGON TRAIL. plexed myself to divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration;... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - 1900 - 248 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,...whips in their hands, were zealously discussing the doc trine of regeneration. 13. The emigrants, however, are not all of this stamp. Among them are some... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - 1900 - 492 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who, with their long 168 whips in their hands, were zealously discussing the doc trine of regeneration. 13. The emigrants,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1901 - 446 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed ' three old fellows, who,...strange migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and society,... | |
 | M. Halley, Leonard Lemmon - 1903 - 232 páginas
...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,...them are some of the vilest outcasts in the country. frontier — border; backwoods. congenial — agreeable; suited. levee — embankment. amateur —... | |
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... parasol, once gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed ' three old fellows, who, with their long whips in their hands, were zealously discussing the doctrine... 
