The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 ; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes, Volumen11

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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Burrows Bros. Company, 1898
Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

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Página 77 - ... vol. iii, pp. 43-44; cf. Const. Docs., vol. i, p. 53; Stillman, Remarks on Quebec, p. 386.) convivial groups; and any austerity of life which they assumed was very largely the result of isolation and the rigorous discipline of the church. This is very vividly brought out by Le Jeune when he writes : I have here a request to make of all those who wish to express an opinion of the condition of our colony, — to close their eyes while the ships are at anchor in our ports, and to open them at their...
Página 195 - ... relish they experience in drinking them, but for the pleasure they find in becoming drunk. [They imagine in their drunkenness that they are listened to with attention, that they are great orators, that they are valiant and formidable, that they are looked up to as Chiefs, hence this folly suits them...
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Página 31 - Provincial of the Society of JESUS in the Province of France. By Father PAUL RAGUENEAU of the same Society, Superior of the Huron Mission.
Página 197 - ... the independent traders along the Gaspe coast, and at Tadoussac, and gradually found its way to Quebec, whence it was to travel into the woods. As early as 1636 drunkards were being punished at Quebec, and in 1637 Father Le Jeune, who blamed the whole business upon the English, confessed sadly ". . . but it is very difficult to prevent our Frenchmen from co-operating in this dissolute conduct. . . ."49 Despite this evidence of human frailty, it seems to be certain that the bulk of the French,...
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