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" The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived ; but, they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train, instead of havoc and desolation. More than a million of square... "
The Chainbearer: Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts - Página 179
por James Fenimore Cooper - 1845
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Cooper's Novels, Volumen29

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 452 páginas
...bold woman who would think now of waving a handkerchief to a Hudspn river Bteam-boat ! — EDITOR, and both of Dutch extraction, an old wrinkled negro,...shades of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth of the sun ; and culture and abundance have been spread where the beast of the forest so lately roamed, hunted...
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The Chainbearer: Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts ; Illustrated from Drawings ...

James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 504 páginas
...strangers to me. On the maindeck were six or eight sturdy, decent, quiet, respectable-looking laborers, who were evidently of the class of husbandmen. Their...shades of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth of the sun ; and culture and abundance have been spread where the beast of the forest so lately roamed, hunted...
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The Chainbearer: Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts

James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 506 páginas
...strangers to me. On the maindeck were six or eight sturdy, decent, quiet, respectable-looking laborers, who were evidently of the class of husbandmen. Their...shades of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth of the sun ; and culture and abundance have been spread where the beast of the forest so lately roamed, hunted...
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Works, Volumen3

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 456 páginas
...bold woman who would think now of waving a handkerchief to a Hudson river (team-boat ! — EDITOR. and both of Dutch extraction, an old wrinkled negro,...civilization in their train, instead of havoc and desolation. Mora than a million of square miles of territory* have been opened up from the shades of the virgin...
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Works ...

James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 506 páginas
...were evidently of the class of husbandme... Their packs were lying in a pile, near the fo, ' of tho mast, and I did not fail to observe that there were...than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; hut they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation....
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Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American ...

Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 páginas
...that he is - he can write as though he had never heard Natty Bumppo's words, much less penned them: The American axe. It has made more real and lasting...instead of havoc and desolation. More than a million square miles of territory have been opened up from the shade of the virgin forest, to admit the warmth...
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Jean Rivard, ou, L'art de réussir: idéologies et utopie dans l'œuvre d ...

Robert Major - 1991 - 354 páginas
...conférence reprend l'idée et les termes même du panégyrique dû à la plume de James Fenimore Cooper: «The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. » (JF Cooper, The Chainbearer, or the Littlepage Manuscripts, p. 85.) La possibilité d'une influence...
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The Columbia History of the American Novel

Emory Elliott - 1991 - 940 páginas
...instance, the ax in James Fenimore Cooper's The Chainbearer (1845), which exalts "the American axe [which] has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people," or Mark Twain's utilitarian machinery of the contemporary late nineteenth century, say, the armaments...
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America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings

David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 páginas
...With these he has no fears and sets merrily forward in his attack upon the wilderness. —Basil Hall' The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. —James Fenimore Cooper 2 When nineteenth-century Americans imagined the settlement of their nation,...
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Biotechnology and the Human Good

C. Ben Mitchell - 2007 - 228 páginas
...Nye, four acts. The first act is the narrative of the axe. James Fenimore Cooper famously exclaimed: The American axe! It has made more real and lasting...civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation. 6 Or as Timothy Walker put it in the North American Review in 1831: Where she [nature] denied us rivers,...
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