 | John Joseph Wynne - 1925 - 284 páginas
...here, he had much to contend with; for, even after three, four, and five years of effort to learn the language of the savages, he found his progress so...some years successfully taught rhetoric in France. In consequence of this, the temper of his mind was so opposed to the ways and manners of the savages,... | |
 | Theresa Sanders - 2002 - 268 páginas
...practice he could not learn even the rudiments of the Huron language. As one of his brother Jesuits wrote, "This was no little mortification to a man who burned...with desire for the conversion of the Savages...." Chabanel detested the Hurons and the conditions in which they lived: "There, one must always sleep... | |
 | Theresa Sanders - 2002 - 260 páginas
...practice he could not learn even the rudiments of the Huron language. As one of his brother Jesuits wrote, "This was no little mortification to a man who burned...with desire for the conversion of the Savages...." Chabanel detested the Hurons and the conditions in which they lived: "There, one must always sleep... | |
 | Willa Cather - 2005 - 732 páginas
...Ontario). Although a brilliant teacher of rhetoric in France, he could not master the Huron language, "no little mortification to a man who burned with desire for the conversion of the Savages," writes Paul Ragueneau in the Relation of 1 649- 5 o (Ken ton 239). During the Iroquois raids in 1649,... | |
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God had given him a strong vocation for these countries; but, once here, he had much to contend with; for, even after three, four, and five years of effort to learn the language of the savages, he found his progress so slight, that hardly could he make... 