The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth CenturyLittle, Brown, 1867 - 463 pages |
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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman Affichage du livre entier - 1867 |
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman Affichage du livre entier - 1867 |
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Allumette Island animals Ataentsic auec baptism baptized bark bear beaver bien Brébeuf Bressani c'est Canada canoes Champlain Charles Garnier Charlevoix Chaumonot chief clans council Cramoisy dances Dauversière dead death Dieu diviners dreams earth embarked Faillon faith Father feast fire forest François French Garnier gave Goupil hands Heaven hundred hunter Huron towns Indian Iroquois island Jesuits Jeune Jeune's Jogues journey Jouskeha kettles la Peltrie Lafitau Lake Lake Huron Lalemant Lawrence letter lived lodge Manabozho manitous Marie de l'Incarnation Mercier Mestigoit mission mission-house missionary Mohawks Montagnais Montmagny Montreal nation Neutrals night Nouë Olier Ossossané Ottawa party Peltrie Pierre Pioneers of France priests prisoners qu'il Quebec Ragueneau Relation des Hurons river Sagard savage shore sick Society of Jesus sometimes sorcerer souls spirit squaws Superior Tadoussac tion tobacco tout Ursulines village Vimont Virgin Voyage warriors wigwam women young zeal
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Page 48 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 58 - ... in enthusiastic songs of thanksgiving. Tents, baggage, arms and stores, were landed. An altar was raised on a pleasant spot near at hand; and Mademoiselle Mance, with Madame de la Peltrie, aided by her servant Charlotte Barre', decorated it with a taste which was the admiration of the beholders. Now all the company gathered before the shrine. Here stood Vimont in the rich vestments of his office.
Page 58 - And here, too, was Father Vimont, Superior of the missions, for the Jesuits had been prudently invited to accept the spiritual charge of the young colony. On the following day they glided along the green and solitary shores now thronged with the life of a busy city and landed on the spot which Champlain thirty-one years before had chosen as the fit site of a settlement.
Page xvi - He who entered on a winter night beheld a strange spectacle: the vista of fires lighting the smoky concave; the bronzed groups encircling each, — cooking, eating, gambling, or amusing themselves with idle badinage; shrivelled squaws, hideous with threescore years of hardship; grisly old warriors, scarred with Iroquois war-clubs; young aspirants, whose honors were yet to be won; damsels gay with ochre and wampum; restless children pellinell with restless dogs.
Page 38 - in a trance, a miraculous voice. It was that of Christ, promising to become her spouse. Months and years passed, full of troubled hopes and fears, when again the voice sounded in her ear, with assurance that the promise was fulfilled, and that she was indeed his bride. Now ensued phenomena which are not infrequent among Roman Catholic female devotees when unmarried or married unhappily, and which have their source in the necessities of a woman's nature.
Page 115 - Abenaqui flock, who had been advised to petition for English assistance. The time seemed inauspicious for a Jesuit visit to Boston; for not only had it been announced as foremost among the objects in colonizing New England, "to raise a bulwark against the kingdom of Antichrist, which the Jesuits labor to rear up in all places of the world,"1 but, three years before, the Legisla1 Considerations for the Plantation in New England.
Page xlvii - In no Indian language could the early missionaries find a word to express the idea of God. Manitou and Oki meant anything endowed with supernatural powers, from a snake-skin or a greasy Indian conjurer up to Manabozho and Jouskeha. The priests were forced to use a circumlocution, — 'the great chief of men,
Page 11 - Noel Chabanel came later to the mission ; for he did not reach the Huron country until 1643. He detested the Indian life, — the smoke, the vermin, the filthy food, the impossibility of privacy. He could not study by the smoky lodge-fire, among the noisy crowd of men and squaws, with their dogs, and their restless, screeching children. He had a natural inaptitude to learning the language, and labored at it for five years with scarcely a sign of progress. The Devil whispered a suggestion into his...
Page lxxxvi - The approach of summer brought with it a comparative peace. Many of the villagers dispersed, — some to their fishing, some to expeditions of trade, and some to distant lodges by their detached cornfields. The priests availed themselves of the respite to engage in those exercises of private devotion which the rule of St. Ignatius enjoins. About midsummer, however, their quiet was suddenly broken. The crops were withering under a severe drought, a calamity which the sandy nature of the soil made...
Page 38 - she exclaimed, "when shall I embrace you? Have you no pity on me in the torments that I suffer? Alas! alas ! my Love, my Beauty, my Life ! instead of healing my pain, you take pleasure in it. Come, let me embrace you, and die in your sacred arms ! " And again she writes : " Then, as I was spent with fatigue, I was forced to say, ' My divine Love, since you wish, me to live, I pray you let me rest a little, that I may the better serve you...